Howard's End

A Seattle forum on "Fixing Radio" focused on the fallout from Janet Jackson's exposed breast and Clear Channel Communications' suspension of Howard Stern. (Clear Channel executives were shocked, shocked to discover that Stern's show features sexually explicit talk.) But panelist Bruce Wirth of KBCS 91.3 FM commented, "What I think is really indecent is that we're focusing on this and Janet Jackson's (breast) ... We're obsessed about sex when the same stations like Clear Channel were out there rah-rahing a war that has wound up killing hundreds of American soldiers, not to mention Iraqi civilians. Now that's indecent. We're so obsessed about sex in this country, and the typical strategy of the right is to divert our attention to sex issues."