To add to Clear Channel’s misery, Howard Stern supposedly blogs. Even without it, he manages to get his message out as in this comment on a section of the MTV site.

“This is a joke and a smokescreen that it’s about sex,” Stern said on Wednesday (June 30). “I dared to go on the air and say that I do not support George W. Bush, I support John Kerry … all of a sudden, Clear Channel took me off the air in six markets. When you criticize the president, you get thrown off the air.”

Businessweek (July 12, 2004) reports that Stern was influenced by Michael Moore’s book “Dude Where’s My Country.”

An interesting sidebar: There’s a Web site run by radio consulting firm Jacobs Media, which shows communicators the limits of this ‘indecency’ act. You can test your ‘Indecency Quotient’ here.

Sample question about what’s permissible on air:

Double entendres such as “Están cambiando el aceite” (“they’re changing the oil”) in a foreign language are safe. True or False?

Don’t know? Take the quiz!