"So, in effect, all it takes is for one NAL (Notice of Apparent Liability) to be issued and a Viacom employee, such as Howard Stern, has to be taken off the air immediately while the investigation occurs."

"World Wrestling Entertainment Chairman Vince McMahon parodied the Monday Night Football controversy on Monday's telecast of Raw on Spike TV. As the telecast opened with a shot of wrestler Shelton Benjamin, who is black, confronting female wrestler Trish Stratus, wearing a towel, in the locker room, McMahon burst into the room just as Stratus was about to remove the towel, shouting, 'This is unconscionable. This is scandalous. I can see the moral fabric of America disintegrating right before my very eyes. The sexual overtones, the racial overtones ... I'm sorry, the FCC is not going to tolerate this, and neither will I ... I'm not going to have a locker room of deviants. This is the WWE, this is not the NFL and it damn sure is not the NBA. This is the kind of sexual titillation that would send you up into the stands and attack the audience.'"

"...the person or persons who most affected the news and our lives, for good or ill, and embodied what was important about the year, for better or worse."

"This book discusses evolution. President George W. Bush said, 'On the issue of evolution, the verdict is still out on how God created the Earth.' Therefore, until 2008 this material shood be aproched with an open mind, studeed carefuly, and critcly consid'rd."

"Staying in office, however, and capable of wreaking havoc in American broadcasting until 2007, is Colin's son Michael Powell, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission and definitely not a force for good in America."

"Fox has a schizophrenic personality. Conservatives appreciate Fox news channel for bringing balance, but the Fox entertainment network, on the other hand, has clearly been the leader in driving TV into the sewer with its non-stop sexual emphasis."

"In the first act, Georges tries to kiss Albin, and Albin says, 'Please, Georges, we're in public.' By the end of the second act, after they go through the horrible experience of pretending to be straight, the kiss shows that they have accepted who they are. They're 50 years old, and they don't have to put up with all this shit anymore."

"What the segment did do, however, was make me wonder if America was ready to see a naked, blonde, white woman with her arms wrapped around an outspoken, controversial, highly paid black man. From what I can tell from everybody's reaction, the country definitely wasn't."

"The urge to ban is contagious. It spreads like wildfire from community to community. Please speak out. Censors hate publicity."

"In a November 13 interview in the Boston Globe, Paterson recalled how one Christian schoolteacher responded to the book by writing, 'From now on, I'm going to teach literature from the Bible alone.' Commented Paterson, herself a Presbyterian elder, 'I hope she doesn't use the Book of Judges.'"

"It didn't occur to me to be outraged. I forgot we're living in Bluenose America now. It never crossed my mind that enough people would be offended by this little junior high skit that the NFL would feel compelled to huff out a laughable statement of disapproval and ABC would stifle its giggles over a successful publicity stunt for both its Sunday night comedy hit and its geriatric Monday night sports franchise long enough to apologize insincerely."

"These are not people that should be eulogized, and it's condoning terrorism. But on the other hand, I'm not willing to say the county should withdraw the permit to hold the exhibit because we know that the Jewish community is the first community to have its First Amendment rights removed, historically, all over the world."

"If we have indecency on the public airwaves, why would we then leapfrog and go to subscription services and start enforcing indecency standards when they are by-and-large not enforced aggressively enough for most of us on the public airwaves. The public airwaves are a totally different animal."

"It's important that families, especially our children, recognize the sacrifices made by our loved ones during wartime. However, airing excessively profane language during primetime television hours is not necessary to convey that sacrifice. We believe ABC can air their salute to heroes without violating broadcast decency laws."