Part one of term paper
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 ...

Part two of term paper
... 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 exactly? According to the government it means that the FCC can only regulate broadcasts. They cannot censor broadcasts, that is determine what is offensive in the matters of speech (essay). Pacifica was a radio station that in 1978 aired a twelve-minute monologue by comedian George Carlin. This twelve-minute mon ...