FCC Chairman ambushed.........with questions!

[Tmy]

Foul-mouthed radio personality Howard Stern has another Powell to reckon with: Secretary of State Colin Powell. The nation's top diplomat came to the defense of his son, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell, after Stern said the younger Powell only got the job because of his family name.
Stern made a surprise call to KGO-AM radio in San Francisco while Michael Powell was a studio guest Tuesday.

How did you get your job?" Stern asked. "It is apparent to most of us in broadcasting that your father got you your job, and you kind of sit there and you're the judge, you're the arbiter, you're the one who tells us what we can and can't say on the air."

Stern added, "I really don't even think you're qualified to be the head of the commission

Though Stern's show has produced more FCC fines than any other, Powell told Stern, "I don't think that, you know, we have made any particular crusade of the Howard Stern show or you."

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This is great. The background of the story is that FCC Chairman Mikey Powell was to be on this talk radio show BUT THERE WERENT SUPPOSED TO BE QUESTIONS FROM CALLERS!!!! Imagine that. Head ofthe FCC, a government communications agency, doesnt want to take questions from the public. Who the hell does he think he is? Pope?? Our so called leaders should be forced to answer questions from the public every damn week.

COnsidering hes fined Howrad Stern millions of dollars, the least he could do is explain himself. Instead you have to corner the guy on a talk radio show.

Now It's Howard Stern Vs. Colin Powell

 

[Ed]

Foul-mouthed radio personality Howard Stern has another Powell to reckon with: Secretary of State Colin Powell. The nation's top diplomat came to the defense of his son, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell, after Stern said the younger Powell only got the job because of his family name.
Stern made a surprise call to KGO-AM radio in San Francisco while Michael Powell was a studio guest Tuesday.


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Now It's Howard Stern Vs. Colin Powell

I enjoy Howard but I think that his motivations are simply money.

 

[HarryKeogh]

Though Stern's show has produced more FCC fines than any other, Powell told Stern, "I don't think that, you know, we have made any particular crusade of the Howard Stern show or you."

50% of fines levied for obsenity by the FCC have been against the Stern show.

but no crusade...even though other radio shows and Oprah top what he says on a repeated basis.

Anyway, lookin forward to Howard on Sirius...I'll be there as soon as he is.

 

[Tony]

Our so called leaders should be forced to answer questions from the public every damn week.

I absolutely agree. We need to get the FCC out of the censorship bis.

 

[TragicMonkey]

Re: Re: FCC Chairman ambushed.........with questions!

I enjoy Howard but I think that his motivations are simply money.

I think he's one of the most sincerely unamusing people I've ever heard, but it irritates me mightily that government agencies can limit his asinine antics. If people don't like it, who's forcing them to listen? Argh!

 

[Tmy]

Now Mikey Powells dad is coming to his rescue. How embarrassing.

 

[HarryKeogh]

let's see Powell was appointed by Clinton to the FCC then Bush appoints him CHAIRMAN of the FCC.

Is it common for Republicans to promote people originally appointed by Democrats?

Nepotism? noooooooooooo!

 

[DaChew]

Minor point. Michael Powell didn't fine Stern. Stern was fined by the Federal Communications COMMISSION which is a GROUP made up of Republicans and Democrats who investigate and answer complaints filed by the public. For Stern to claim that Powell has some sort of personal vendetta against him is ludicrous. Stern has been in broadcasting for decades and has been fined by the FCC several times pre-Powell. He knows all this. He knows how the FCC works. He's blowing smoke to get publicity for himself because that is who he is.

 

[Dorian Gray]

Powell is the CHAIR of that COMMISSION. He is responsible for everything that comes out of the FCC, and since he has been in charge, fines have gone up, and freedoms have gone down, other than for Oprah.

In fact, former heads of the FCC don't understand what Powell is doing either:

On April 8, Stern was finally fired by Clear Channel after the company was levelled with a half-million dollar fine for a program that aired on April 9, 2003. Even prior FCC leaders are puzzled by the governments puritan assault on radio free speech. (Boehlert)

"At the present time I don't understand the rules, nor can anybody else. They're obscure," complains Reed Hundt, who served as FCC chairman under President Clinton. "I don't defend Howard Stern. But I am saying in the absence of any kind of clarity of rules it looks like a political exercise. Even Howard Stern deserves some element of fairness. Because for the first time in decades the FCC now has enough power to put stations and people out of business and can do it on a whim. And it's not true that once you unleash government in an arbitrary manner [to monitor speech], you can confine it to the topic of indecency." (Boehlert)

http://iml.jou.ufl.edu/projects/Spring04/Hale/index2.html

 

[DaChew]

Powell is the CHAIR of that COMMISSION. He is responsible for everything that comes out of the FCC, and since he has been in charge, fines have gone up, and freedoms have gone down, other than for Oprah.

In fact, former heads of the FCC don't understand what Powell is doing either:

http://iml.jou.ufl.edu/projects/Spring04/Hale/index2.html

Sorry, could you point to the words "Michael Powell" anywhere in the quote you provided?