Last week, FCC Chairman Michael Powell wrote a New York Times Op-ed piece called “Don’t Expect the Government to Be a V-Chip” in which is he laid out the FCC’s current stance and approach to the swirling indecency debate. Of course he couldn’t resist lobbing a shot at Howard Stern writing, “It is no surprise that those who make a handsome living by selling saucy fare rant the loudest – it drives up the ratings. The news media further fan the flames, obsessed with ‘culture war’ stories that slot Americans into blue-state and red-state camps.” Oh how we’ve progressed since the Elvis Pelvis debacle.
