"What a week it's been...We have more good news to report to you. Howard Stern has been driven off of the public airwaves - - and it's thanks to your efforts and activism." That is the message now posted on the Parents Television Council website.

"Stern claims that by making the move, he will no longer be subject to broadcast decency laws," the post continues. "The real victors are the millions and millions of American families who will no longer be subjected to Stern's pornographic rantings during their morning drive time."

But that move isn't quite far enough for Morality in Media. MIM President Robert Peters issued a statement recanting earlier statements that the Stern move to Sirius was a "compromise that I would try to live with."

He said that XM Satellite Radio will use the HBO model, charging an additional fee for subscribers to tune into its radio emigre shock jocks Opie & Anthony. Peters said that is not the case with Sirius and Stern. Sirius is simply attaching an "explicit language" disclaimer to its service and installing Stern in the general lineup.

"Sirius informs parents that 'some programming may contain explicit language...We are not responsible for content that you or anyone else may find appropriate...' Well, if the company that provides the programming and reaps big bucks in profits from it is not responsible, who is? The sometimes equally irresponsible parents?"

He concluded, "Now that the FCC finally appears to be moving in the direction of fulfilling its statutory responsibility to enforce the broadcast indecency law, Stern announces that he will move to a satellite radio medium that is virtually identical to broadcast radio, except that listeners pay a monthly fee instead of paying through the purchase of products and services that are advertised in broadcasting. Judges with a radical libertarian bent will undoubtedly see an important distinction here, but more reasonable and honest citizens will recognize a distinction without a difference when they see it, particularly when children, the privacy of the home and a decent society are at stake."