Parents Org. ANGRY Over Howard Stern — NBC Has ‘Lost Its Way’
A powerful parents organization is furious with NBC for hiring Howard Stern on “America’s Got Talent” — claiming the move is an “act of desperation for a flailing network.”The Parents Television Council has released a statement to TMZ … claiming primetime TV is no place for Howard Stern … “a performer who is synonymous with shock, profanity and obscenity.”The PTC says, “The once-proud broadcast network has lost its way and has made it clear it holds no concern whatsoever for children and families.”The group adds, “Not coincidentally, in just over three weeks the network will be standing before the United States Supreme Court arguing for the right to use the F-word at any time of the day, even in front of children.”