NYT/AP: Head of TV Watchdog Group (Brent Bozell) Steps Down

[DeepModem Mom]

Head of TV Watchdog Group Steps Down
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: September 2, 2006

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- L. Brent Bozell, one of America's best-known crusaders against broadcast indecency, has stepped down as president of the Parents Television Council, the organization said Friday.

Bozell will be replaced as president Jan. 1 by executive director Tim Winter. Bozell, who founded the organization in 1995, will continue to serve on the board.

The PTC was largely responsible for the government's crackdown on broadcast indecency, leading a lobbying campaign that persuaded Congress to increase fines against stations that air indecent material tenfold.

Bozell said running the PTC combined with other commitments has ''simply become too much for me, and with a large family, it's just not healthy for me. More importantly, however, it is not healthy for the PTC.''...

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/arts/AP-Bozell-Quits.html

[napi21]

1. Wasn't he asports annoncer some time ago? n/t

[kenny blankenship]

2. Oops! Someone must have found out...

[tanyev]

3. Needs to spend more time with his family, eh?

What's the real reason?

[Mabus]

6. Which family?

:rofl:

So whose family does he want to spend time with? His own or does he have a mistress? Call me cynical but whenever someone like this steps down I usually suspect that there's a backstory they don't want the public to know about.

[carolinayellowdog]

4. Mental health issues?

I remembered Paul Waldman's horror story from 2004, but this blog has more:

http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/outthere/otmeltdown.html

[tanyev]

9. Interesting site. Thx for posting.

[gratuitous]

5. Gonna spend more time with his family, huh?

Let's see, news dumped on Saturday morning. So, when the indictment comes down on Monday or Tuesday, it will be a far smaller story because after all Mr. Bozell isn't really a public figure anymore. He resigned from his position, see? No big news. Move along. Just another disgraced conservative in a lo-o-o-o-o-ng line of disgraced conservatives. Then he'll come back in three months and co-host a cable show with Bill Bennett, scolding liberals for doing things liberals didn't do.

[Mabus]

7. LOL

I was thinking the same thing. I just posted a question above, "whose family does he want to spend time with?" :evilgrin:

[wakeme2008]

8. sniff sniff Kiddie Porn

OK maybe I have my :tinfoilhat: on to tight... :)

[LostInAnomie]

10. So which one is it?

A dead girl or a live boy?