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During Glaser's interview with Stern, the shock jock praised her for mocking CBS News despite the Golden Globes airing on CBS.
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Ashley Hume, FOXNews.com, 14 Jan. 2026
Howard Stern, then a rising shock jock on terrestrial radio, went all in, calling for Goetz to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026
First, there's the film's claustrophobic setting: The story takes place over one snowy morning in the small Ontario town of Pontypool, where washed-up radio shock jock Grant Mazzy (Stephen McHattie) is narrating a zombie apocalypse in real time from his recording booth.
—Katie Rife, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Oct. 2025
Powell’s regulatory activism, done mostly to curb the outrageous antics of radio shock jocks, resulted in some of the most significant and long-lasting restrictions on broadcast freedom in U.S. history.
—Michael J. Socolow, The Conversation, 14 Oct. 2025
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Ashley Hume, FOXNews.com, 14 Jan. 2026
Howard Stern, then a rising shock jock on terrestrial radio, went all in, calling for Goetz to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026
First, there's the film's claustrophobic setting: The story takes place over one snowy morning in the small Ontario town of Pontypool, where washed-up radio shock jock Grant Mazzy (Stephen McHattie) is narrating a zombie apocalypse in real time from his recording booth.
—Katie Rife, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Oct. 2025
Powell’s regulatory activism, done mostly to curb the outrageous antics of radio shock jocks, resulted in some of the most significant and long-lasting restrictions on broadcast freedom in U.S. history.
—Michael J. Socolow, The Conversation, 14 Oct. 2025
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“Shock jock.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shock%20jock. Accessed 28 Jan. 2026.
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