The hysteria builds as Howard Stern gets ready to go uncensored. The man is a pig, and a dishonest one at that. I predict he will go down: rich, but down. Media-types think satellite radio was stillborn (something better will replace it) and relentless vulgarity grows tiresome after awhile, except for the most thick-headed listeners. NYT Link about Stern's lewd possibilities. Excerpt:
Still, the possibility that Mr. Stern, 51, might go from R-rated fare - his current show features interviews with topless guests - to soft-core pornography could just be a tease. He has long been a master barker who can lure listeners under his tent for the sheer thrill of wondering how far he might go.
To that end, Mr. Stern simultaneously dampened such expectations, saying that while none of his new bosses had drawn any boundaries for his new show, he expected to do so.
"I have my own personal lines where I won't go," he said. "It's funny, the people hear 'satellite,' they hear 'on demand,' they think, 'Oh good, there's going to be a beheading every week.' That's not it at all.
"This wasn't about getting on the air and having the freedom to have sex with a woman, necessarily," he said of his move to satellite. Instead, he suggested, "To talk about human sexuality in a way that's adult, or maybe even really super childish, is my prerogative as a comedian."
