Journal Journal: Working in radio...
We tend to get a lot of press release spam in our inboxes. My favorite of these, however, is the opportunity to interview Jack Thompson. I'm posting the release here, so if I ever decide to link to this, and people find it neat, It won't kill my schools bandwidth.
CONTACT: To schedule an interview, call: Special Guests/Christine Dahlson or Jerry McGlothlin.
JOIN THE "FUN": VIRTUAL RAPE/MURDER Latest Generation of Video Games for Children--Available for Christmas!
Violent Rape-- is now legal. Violent Mass Murder--is now legal. So, how do we join the "fun"?
Easy: Just buy one of the latest generation video games on store shelves now--but hurry; they're going fast--really fast.
And if Consumer Advocate/Author Jack Thompson has his way, violent video games will be go extinct altogether.
Conducting Talk Show interviews denouncing the violent video game industry, Thompson gives real life stories and statistics on the extreme danger of these violent video games.
Thompson, a graduate of Vanderbilt Law School, where he was a classmate of former Vice President Al Gore, shares with your audience how violent videos have a brain-altering affect that can lead to deadly results. During your interview, Thompson also gives antidotes from his new book, "Out of Harm's Way" (Nov. 2005 Release from Tyndale House Publishers).
In Out of Harm's Way, Thompson puts the powerful video gaming industry in his cross hairs. Pointing to medical, scientific, and law enforcement evidence, the author shows how unhealthy and dangerous this popular "entertainment" has become--and how violent video games have been linked to the increase in school shootings. Lest the video gaming industry think Thompson is not capable of opposing their powerful stranglehold on the entertainment business, his history strongly suggests otherwise.
In Thompson's engrossing memoir--an account of a modern-day David's battle against the entertainment business, there is a much needed call to arms. Writing as one who has been at the front lines of the culture war for the past two decades, often standing right in the line of fire, Thompson explains the moral, legal, ethical, and racial implications of this battle and why it is vital that parents--and anyone else concerned about the health, safety, and well-being of children--understand it--and join the battle to stop violent video games--dead in their tracks.
In addition to discussing video games, Jack Thompson also talks about his successful battle to oust Howard Stern from the terrestrial airwaves
HOWARD STERN'S WORST NIGHTMARE: JACK THOMPSON
For some reason, Jack Thompson, activist and lawyer, is the bad guy. It is he who is the "lunatic." It is he, just to keep his law license in Florida, who was forced to be tested by psychologists to be deemed "certifiably sane." While he says he wouldn't wish his unlikely, not-always-likeable hero status on anyone, Thompson's relentless fight to clean up the entertainment industry has some of the mightiest media Goliaths on the run.
"This Lunatic Lawyer in Miami" - Howard Stern
Last year, Thompson took on shock jock Howard Stern and sent him packing for satellite radio. The author's legal complaint to the FCC resulted in the agency fining Clear Channel $495,000. Ultimately, Clear Channel decided to pull Stern from the air. Stern's subsequent flight to satellite radio was triggered by Thompson's continued guerrilla tactics.
2 Live Crew Suit
It was Thompson, in 1989, who had the courage to face 2 Live Crew in court and win the first-ever verdict labeling a sound recording as obscene. He made the argument that "Parental Advisory" stickers placed on the album, As Nasty as They Wanna Be, did not adequately warn listeners of what was inside the case. Thompson met with Florida Governor Bob Martinez and convinced him to see if it met the legal classification of "obscene."
Oliver North's Freedom Alliance
In 1992, Thompson represented Oliver North's Freedom Alliance at the annual Time Warner shareholders' meeting, regarding rapper Ice T's song Cop Killer. He argued that should the song lead listeners to kill police officers that widows should be able to sue Time Warner over the content of the record. Time Warner subsequently pulled the song from store shelves worldwide.
Columbine Shootings
After learning about the deadly effects of violent video games on adolescents, Thompson predicted on NBC's Today that a Columbine-line event would happen very soon. The Columbine event took place less than a month later. An absorbing memoir of an improbable hero, Out of Harm's Way chronicles Jack Thompson's spiritual, intellectual, and moral journey to becoming one of America's most visible opponents of violence and obscenity in entertainment.
A graduate of Vanderbilt Law School, where he was a classmate of Al Gore, Jack Thompson is a former "hands-off-business libertarian" and "First Amendment absolutist" who subsequently became convinced that the entertainment industry must be forced into taking responsibility for the brain-altering and deadly results of the violence and indecency it is spewing into millions of homes, families, and minds. An attorney specializing in litigation against the entertainment industry since 1987, he has been interviewed for hundreds of radio and TV programs about the link between violent video games and teen violence. A frequent speaker on college campuses, Thompson lives with his family in Florida, where he is a lay leader in his Presbyterian church.
ABOUT JACK THOMPSON...
A 1976 graduate of Vanderbilt Law School, where he was a classmate of Al Gore, Jack Thompson is a former "hands-off-business libertarian" and "First Amendment absolutist" who subsequently became convinced that the entertainment industry must be forced into taking responsibility for the brain-altering and deadly results of the violence and indecency it is spewing into millions of homes, families, and minds.
An attorney specializing in litigation against the entertainment industry since 1987, he has been interviewed for hundreds of radio and TV programs about the link between violent video games and teen violence. His legal successes include: securing the first FCC decency fines (1989); securing the first verdict that a sound recording is obscene (2 Live Crew case in 1990); forced Time Warner to pull rapper Ice-T's "Cop Killer" from store shelves worldwide (1992); and received ACLU's "Top Ten Censors of the Year Award" (1992).
Recently, Thompson has represented parents of three girls shot at a school in Paducah, Ky., by a 14-year-old video gamer. He also got shock jock Howard Stern kicked off all Clear Channel radio stations and Clear Channel fined $495,000 for illegal indecent broadcasts. He also successfully predicted a "Columbine-type" incident on national television one week before it occurred, and he also predicted that the DC Beltway Sniper triggerman would be "trained on a sniper video game."
A frequent speaker on college campuses, Thompson lives with his family in south Florida where he is a lay leader in his Presbyterian church.
Suggested Interview Questions for Jack Thompson, author of "Out of Harm's Way":
Jack on Video Games:
* Do you really believe violent games lead to violence? What proof do you have?
* Can video games really permanently alter a persons brain?
* Isn't this really just a parent's responsibility, not the government's?
* Are you opposed to all video games or just some?
* Tell me one story that would be most likely to cause a listener to share your concern that video games cause violent behaviors?
* What is the solution to the play of so many violent games by kids?
* Are violent games really being sold to minors?
* Didn't you play cops and robbers as a kid?
* Are all violent games bad or just some?
* Do you think we're going to see more laws against the sales of violent games?
* Is this a Republican issue or a Democratic issue?
* Aren't Republicans supposed to be opposed to more government regulating our lives?
* Where does your regulation end? Aren't you putting us on a slippery slope of censorship?
* What are some of the video game companies that you believe are acting irresponsibly?
* With the holiday buying season coming around, what games should parents buy for kids?
Jack on Howard Stern:
* What is the problem with Howard Stern doing what he does on the air?
* Is it all just about the money with these people, or is there something else that motivates them as well?
* Has the FCC singled out Howard Stern? Are they picking on him unfairly?
* How will Stern do on satellite radio?
* What will Stern be doing 10 years from now?
* Isn't it solely a parent's responsibility to keep his/her child away from Stern's program?
* Doesn't the First Amendment protect what anyone wants to put on the public airwaves?
* Aren't you putting us on a "slippery slope" of censorship? Where does it end?
* What would you like to have happen to Howard Stern?
* Has Howard Stern really affected America in any fashion, for good or ill?
So the More I read about this man, the more I hate him.
CONTACT: To schedule an interview, call: Special Guests/Christine Dahlson or Jerry McGlothlin.
JOIN THE "FUN": VIRTUAL RAPE/MURDER Latest Generation of Video Games for Children--Available for Christmas!
Violent Rape-- is now legal. Violent Mass Murder--is now legal. So, how do we join the "fun"?
Easy: Just buy one of the latest generation video games on store shelves now--but hurry; they're going fast--really fast.
And if Consumer Advocate/Author Jack Thompson has his way, violent video games will be go extinct altogether.
Conducting Talk Show interviews denouncing the violent video game industry, Thompson gives real life stories and statistics on the extreme danger of these violent video games.
Thompson, a graduate of Vanderbilt Law School, where he was a classmate of former Vice President Al Gore, shares with your audience how violent videos have a brain-altering affect that can lead to deadly results. During your interview, Thompson also gives antidotes from his new book, "Out of Harm's Way" (Nov. 2005 Release from Tyndale House Publishers).
In Out of Harm's Way, Thompson puts the powerful video gaming industry in his cross hairs. Pointing to medical, scientific, and law enforcement evidence, the author shows how unhealthy and dangerous this popular "entertainment" has become--and how violent video games have been linked to the increase in school shootings. Lest the video gaming industry think Thompson is not capable of opposing their powerful stranglehold on the entertainment business, his history strongly suggests otherwise.
In Thompson's engrossing memoir--an account of a modern-day David's battle against the entertainment business, there is a much needed call to arms. Writing as one who has been at the front lines of the culture war for the past two decades, often standing right in the line of fire, Thompson explains the moral, legal, ethical, and racial implications of this battle and why it is vital that parents--and anyone else concerned about the health, safety, and well-being of children--understand it--and join the battle to stop violent video games--dead in their tracks.
In addition to discussing video games, Jack Thompson also talks about his successful battle to oust Howard Stern from the terrestrial airwaves
HOWARD STERN'S WORST NIGHTMARE: JACK THOMPSON
For some reason, Jack Thompson, activist and lawyer, is the bad guy. It is he who is the "lunatic." It is he, just to keep his law license in Florida, who was forced to be tested by psychologists to be deemed "certifiably sane." While he says he wouldn't wish his unlikely, not-always-likeable hero status on anyone, Thompson's relentless fight to clean up the entertainment industry has some of the mightiest media Goliaths on the run.
"This Lunatic Lawyer in Miami" - Howard Stern
Last year, Thompson took on shock jock Howard Stern and sent him packing for satellite radio. The author's legal complaint to the FCC resulted in the agency fining Clear Channel $495,000. Ultimately, Clear Channel decided to pull Stern from the air. Stern's subsequent flight to satellite radio was triggered by Thompson's continued guerrilla tactics.
2 Live Crew Suit
It was Thompson, in 1989, who had the courage to face 2 Live Crew in court and win the first-ever verdict labeling a sound recording as obscene. He made the argument that "Parental Advisory" stickers placed on the album, As Nasty as They Wanna Be, did not adequately warn listeners of what was inside the case. Thompson met with Florida Governor Bob Martinez and convinced him to see if it met the legal classification of "obscene."
Oliver North's Freedom Alliance
In 1992, Thompson represented Oliver North's Freedom Alliance at the annual Time Warner shareholders' meeting, regarding rapper Ice T's song Cop Killer. He argued that should the song lead listeners to kill police officers that widows should be able to sue Time Warner over the content of the record. Time Warner subsequently pulled the song from store shelves worldwide.
Columbine Shootings
After learning about the deadly effects of violent video games on adolescents, Thompson predicted on NBC's Today that a Columbine-line event would happen very soon. The Columbine event took place less than a month later. An absorbing memoir of an improbable hero, Out of Harm's Way chronicles Jack Thompson's spiritual, intellectual, and moral journey to becoming one of America's most visible opponents of violence and obscenity in entertainment.
A graduate of Vanderbilt Law School, where he was a classmate of Al Gore, Jack Thompson is a former "hands-off-business libertarian" and "First Amendment absolutist" who subsequently became convinced that the entertainment industry must be forced into taking responsibility for the brain-altering and deadly results of the violence and indecency it is spewing into millions of homes, families, and minds. An attorney specializing in litigation against the entertainment industry since 1987, he has been interviewed for hundreds of radio and TV programs about the link between violent video games and teen violence. A frequent speaker on college campuses, Thompson lives with his family in Florida, where he is a lay leader in his Presbyterian church.
ABOUT JACK THOMPSON...
A 1976 graduate of Vanderbilt Law School, where he was a classmate of Al Gore, Jack Thompson is a former "hands-off-business libertarian" and "First Amendment absolutist" who subsequently became convinced that the entertainment industry must be forced into taking responsibility for the brain-altering and deadly results of the violence and indecency it is spewing into millions of homes, families, and minds.
An attorney specializing in litigation against the entertainment industry since 1987, he has been interviewed for hundreds of radio and TV programs about the link between violent video games and teen violence. His legal successes include: securing the first FCC decency fines (1989); securing the first verdict that a sound recording is obscene (2 Live Crew case in 1990); forced Time Warner to pull rapper Ice-T's "Cop Killer" from store shelves worldwide (1992); and received ACLU's "Top Ten Censors of the Year Award" (1992).
Recently, Thompson has represented parents of three girls shot at a school in Paducah, Ky., by a 14-year-old video gamer. He also got shock jock Howard Stern kicked off all Clear Channel radio stations and Clear Channel fined $495,000 for illegal indecent broadcasts. He also successfully predicted a "Columbine-type" incident on national television one week before it occurred, and he also predicted that the DC Beltway Sniper triggerman would be "trained on a sniper video game."
A frequent speaker on college campuses, Thompson lives with his family in south Florida where he is a lay leader in his Presbyterian church.
Suggested Interview Questions for Jack Thompson, author of "Out of Harm's Way":
Jack on Video Games:
* Do you really believe violent games lead to violence? What proof do you have?
* Can video games really permanently alter a persons brain?
* Isn't this really just a parent's responsibility, not the government's?
* Are you opposed to all video games or just some?
* Tell me one story that would be most likely to cause a listener to share your concern that video games cause violent behaviors?
* What is the solution to the play of so many violent games by kids?
* Are violent games really being sold to minors?
* Didn't you play cops and robbers as a kid?
* Are all violent games bad or just some?
* Do you think we're going to see more laws against the sales of violent games?
* Is this a Republican issue or a Democratic issue?
* Aren't Republicans supposed to be opposed to more government regulating our lives?
* Where does your regulation end? Aren't you putting us on a slippery slope of censorship?
* What are some of the video game companies that you believe are acting irresponsibly?
* With the holiday buying season coming around, what games should parents buy for kids?
Jack on Howard Stern:
* What is the problem with Howard Stern doing what he does on the air?
* Is it all just about the money with these people, or is there something else that motivates them as well?
* Has the FCC singled out Howard Stern? Are they picking on him unfairly?
* How will Stern do on satellite radio?
* What will Stern be doing 10 years from now?
* Isn't it solely a parent's responsibility to keep his/her child away from Stern's program?
* Doesn't the First Amendment protect what anyone wants to put on the public airwaves?
* Aren't you putting us on a "slippery slope" of censorship? Where does it end?
* What would you like to have happen to Howard Stern?
* Has Howard Stern really affected America in any fashion, for good or ill?
So the More I read about this man, the more I hate him.
