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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...
...Clear Channel is just one company, and even though we feel that its decisions are often frustratingly irresponsible—or just asinine, as in Stern??€™s case—it has the right to air what it wants. The real problem is that Clear Channel dominates the American radio market—so the intolerant conservatives running the San Antonio, Texas-based company get to inflict their views on the rest of the country. Since 1996, when Congress relaxed the rules that govern media ownership, Clear Channel has gone from 30 radio stations to more than...
...Stern??€”who served as the inspiration for the character played by Nicole Kidman in the 1997 film The Peacemaker about nuclear-weapons terrorism—has penned a book that attempts to answer fears surrounding the current debate about American national security. Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill is based on years of conversations with extremists and her research into international terrorism and reaches out to a popular audience...
Terror in the Name of God still contains all the analytical force of Stern??€™s last book, but contains a more accessible discussion on the why and how of terror and religious extremist acts, focusing on modern changes in terrorist methods and leadership...
...Stern??€™s approach is more calm than reactionary. She advocates the inclusion of all parties in discussions of global terror and difference of belief...