This douche bag lawyer Jack Thompson has been targeting Howard Stern some time now. He's been filing complaints about the Howard Stern Show for years down in Florida. These days he's targeting video games. To me he comes across as a publicity whore plain and simple. He found a couple of things that he can target to get him some major publicity.
Anyway, we may be losing The Howard Stern Show a little early this year thanks to dickweed Jack. He filed an indecency complaint with the FCC earlier this year and now the FCC is investigating. It doesn't seem like a big deal because Howard has been fined in the past, a few times, actually. The problem is that the last time Infinity Broadcasting paid their fines, in a round about way, they signed a consent decree that says if any of their employees are investigated and a Notice of Apparent Liability is filed against them, they have to suspend that employee and possibly fire them. According to an article on FMQB.com, that's a very likely to happen.
Will Howard get fired and be able to move immediately to SIRIUS? Who knows. Luckily, Howard is nearing the end of his contract with Infinity and he was already on his way to SIRIUS. If we do lose him for the remainder of his contract, we won't hear him until January 9th, 2006. I'm assuming that if Infinity has to fire Howard, he'll be able to jump over to SIRIUS as soon as they can get his new channel on the air. Howard's channels (100, 101 and 102) were due to go live on SIRIUS this September anyway, so they'll be ready to put him on the air by then, hopefully.
Unfortunately, douche bags like Jack Thompson will continue to try and take away stuff like mature rated video games, radio shows, TV shows... and eventually magazines I'm sure. They will slowly chip away at things that make this country so great.
