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Hogan, the CEO of Clear Channel Communications, discovered that Howard Stern can be crude. Clear Channel, the nation’s largest radio company, has been making millions off of Stern’s antics for years. Unfortunately for Stern, after Janet Jackson’s bare breast shocked the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) into enforcing a new code of decency on the airwaves—clearly a priority for the country right now—Hogan discovered Stern’s curious style and decided the show wasn’t appropriate for radio. Citing its desire to protect...
Long before Jackson’s breast initiated a new era of FCC involvement in broadcasting, Clear Channel was using its tremendous power to control what Americans hear. When the Dixie Chicks criticized the war in Iraq, for example, Clear Channel refused to play their music. The company’s executives also chose to silence Charles Goyette, a decorated veteran and former Reaganite who got his start in politics by running Barry Goldwater’s student operation during “Mr. Conservative’s” 1964 presidential bid. Until recently, Goyette was a drive-time...
...control what the public hears also often leads the company to engage in tactics even more blatantly inimical to the democratic process. When the Democratic National Committee attempted to run an advertisement criticizing Rep. Charles “Chip” Pickering Jr, R-Miss., two Mississippi Clear Channel stations refused to run the ad. Incidentally, Pickering sits on the House Telecommunications Subcommittee, which is responsible for overseeing the telecommunications industry—including Clear Channel’s operations...
Arthur Rock, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist who helped financed the launches of Intel and Apple Computer, donated $25 million to the school in January 2003. Two months later, Frank Batten, who started the Weather Channel in 1982, gave $32 million to the capital campaign...
...trick powerful enough to spin away a blunder (a drunken wedding in Las Vegas, say), try hiring photographer David LaChapelle to dress you up and transform you into someone else completely (Jean Harlow, say). To promote BRITNEY SPEARS' upcoming concert tour, which will air on Showtime, the cable channel commissioned a glamorous new portrait of the singer--very demure, very classy. Next hurdle: getting people to believe it's Britney...