Michael Powell to Leave FCC

Anonymous Slashdotter writes "Michael Powell, chairman of the FCC, will be stepping down from his post soon. 'Powell, who maintained a light regulatory hand as the nation's chief media watchdog but collected some of the largest indecency fines against U.S. broadcasters, planned to issue a statement Friday but was not expected to hold a formal news conference, these officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity.'"

Comments

Culture war?! You can't handle a real culture war!

[HarveyBirdman]

Someone here said: I shiver in fear.

Wow. You shiver in fear over what thee next FCC chairdroid might think about boobies in the Superbowl. I'll be sure to alert all the people in the Sudan, where the cultural war there results in human beings sold into slavery. Jesus Tap Dancing Christ, are we a pack of soft pussies in this country.

And that's the heart of the problem. Too many of you people exist in the demon haunted wolrd described by Sagan for religous types, except you construct human demons.

I had zero use for Powell or Ashcroft, but, curiously, the skies failed to split asunder and horns of the Apocalypse failed to sound under their reigns. Fancy that.

You all need to calm down and cut the histrionics. It does not gain converts. I feel your pain, but you only drive others away with the heated and vulgar rhetoric that shows up here and elsewhere. Polls seem to show that Farenheit911 probabaly was a net plus for Bush. I'd wager money that Penn & Teller's "Bullshit!" on Showtime has not turned very many people away from paranormal flim-flam relative to those who were pushed more deeply into it.

Culture war happens everywhere, and has been happening as long as we higher primates have been coherent enough to have culture. The EU loudly makes fun of ours in a desperate attempt to ignore their own problems, some of which run deeper into the past than the USA has existed. China slaghters her own citizens in her periodic bouts of cultural unrest. And what do you think Islamofacism has doing these past 14 centuries?

Culture war? Buddy, on that front, we in the USA are rank amateurs in a world of heavily seasoned professionals where cultural hatreds seem to have become a genetic memory.

Re:I for one...

[Brandybuck]

Any tiny morsel of respect I might have had for Stern vanished when I heard that "interview". There's right, there's wrong, and then there's stupid. I don't care if Stern was right or wrong, he's stupid, and that alone got him in trouble.

To rephrase Voltaire, I disgree with what you say and will defend to the death your right to say it, But if you're an asshole about it don't expect me to be your character witness.