Stern Vs. Powell
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In an e-mail exchange with The Post Tuesday night, Powell said he believes the run-in was the first time the two men have spoken. Stern has invited Powell to be a guest on his radio show.
Stern painted Powell as a muzzler of free speech, but Powell pointed out that all of the recent indecency fines were passed unanimously by the five-member commission and that the body's two Democratic commissioners — Michael Copps and Jonathan Adelstein — argued that the fines should have been stronger. The Democrats, not the three Republican members, have argued for license revocation for indecency violations, rebutting Stern's assertion that "if I were a friend of George W. Bush, you-know-who would give the word and you'd back off from me."
"I respect your opinion, but you personalize it as if you're answering to me," Powell said. "You're answering to the commission, if you're answering to anybody. ... Congress just (increased) indecency fines and that passed the Senate, 99-1. There's not 99 Republicans and one Democrat in the Senate."
Stern recently signed a five-year, $500million contract with Sirius Satellite Radio, which he plugged several times during the exchange. Satellite radio, like cable television, is not subject to FCC indecency regulations. Stern's deal begins when he leaves Infinity in January 2006.
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