Stern v. FCC Love him or hate him, Howard Stern is the “King of all Media”. In twenty controversial years of radio, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has fined Howard Stern a sum of some 1.7 million dollars. The FCC has been trying to curtail Howard Stern’s free speech rights and they should not be. On several events (mostly early in the show’s history) Howard Stern has used language that was considered “vulgar” and “inappropriate”(FCC). However, Howard Stern uses these “vulgarities” to make a point and not for show. So Howard Stern should not be banned or censored on account of his radio show. In referring to the case of The FCC v. Pacifica Foundation, the FCC was granted the “power to regulate radio broadcasts that are indecent but not obscene”(essay). What does this mean ex....

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