Now that Howard Stern is the latest addition to ‘America’s Got Talent,’ parent organizations are up in arms, saying that the shock jock’s inclusion 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.”

Do you think the Council is making something out of nothing or do they have a point?

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Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert Perry has dismissed two drug conspiracy charges against Howard K. Stern, the former boyfriend-lawyer of Anna Nicole Smith, making him a free man.

The jury in the case — in which prosecutors argued Stern and others conspired to fuel Anna Nicole Smith‘s drug habit — found Stern guilty of 2 counts of conspiracy, but not guilty on 7 other charges.

The judge felt the conviction was baseless and threw it out.

It’s also a major repudiation of California Gov. Jerry Brown who grandstanded and spent millions as Attorney General going after Stern and the other defendants.

The judge also found that psychiatrist Khristine Eroshevich was acting out of concern for Smith — and sentenced her to no more than one year of probation and a $100 fine for obtaining a Vicodin prescription under a false name.

District Attorney Steve Cooley says, “We strongly disagree with Judge Robert Perry’s ruling today,” adding, “[the ruling] diminishes the huge social problem of prescription drug abuse facilitated by irresponsible caretakers and unscrupulous medical professionals.”

Cooley says he’ll appeal the ruling and hasn’t decided whether to retry Stern on the charges on which the jury was hung.

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Howard K. Stern has been found quilty.

After 58 hours of deliberations an LA jury has reached it’s verdict. They found Howard K. Stern guilty of drug conspiracy. This was in relation to the 2007 drug overdose death of his girlfriend Anna Nicole Smith.

Along with Stern, doctors Sandeep Kapoor and Khristine Eroshevich were facing charges that they provided drugs to Anna Nicole illegally. All three plead not guilty to prescribing opiates and sedatives to an addict. They were also accused of using fictional names in order to provide Anna Nicole with these substances.

Howard K. Stern was found guilty on 2 of the nine counts he was accused of. These included using false names and acting by fraud to supply illegal prescriptions. Eroshevich was found guilty of prescribing Vicodin by fraud. Kapoor, on the other hand, was found innocent of his charges.

Actress and Playboy model, Anna Nicole Smith died February 8, 2007 at the age of 39. She had recently given birth to a daughter named Dannilyn.

The trio were not charged with causing Anna Nicole’s death.

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Larry Birkhead, father of Anna Nicole Smith’s daughter, was tearful as he went into detail about the ailments Anna suffered which included seizures. The drug conspiracy trial focuses on two doctors and also Anna’s former boyfriend Howard K. Stern.

Larry claimed Anna often suffered from seizures as a result of taking drugs. He would see her at times fall asleep in the middle of eating a meal. The result of taking many prescribed meds.

Birkhead claimed that Anna was stubborn and determined to do things as she pleased. Which included taking more drugs than needed or prescribed. He also stated that she had many illnesses.

Stern and the doctors are charged with a conspiracy to provide excessive drugs to Anna Nicole Smith.

Such a tragic story. RIP Anna Nicole.

Radio shock jock Howard Stern is rumored to be a front-runner to replace American Idol judge Simon Cowell. And Howard’s wife, Beth Stern, tells Life & Style she thinks it’s a “brilliant idea.”

“I get the benefit of sitting next to him when he watches American Idol every week,” she tells Life & Style. “And he is so hysterical. He’s brutally honest. He actually roots for the contestants. He’ll say if he thinks they don’t have talent, but he’s a cheerleader for them too.”

Beth tells Life & Style she doesn’t know if Howard — who told his listeners he’d do it “for $100 million” — is really going to try to nab the judge’s chair, which will open up next season. But, Beth adds, “I think he is having fun with the idea!

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An ET producer spoke to a devastatedHoward K. Stern right after he posted bond last night. Stern turned himself in after being charged with six felony counts for allegedly conspiring to provide Anna Nicole Smith with massive amounts of prescription drugs. Our producer said Stern certainly plans to fight the charges.

Howard’s father, Leon Stern tells ET the charges against his son are, “not true.”

Dr. Khristine Eroshevich was also charged and sources tell ET she will surrender on Monday, March 16, 2009. ET sat down with Dr. Eroshevich back in March 2007 as she reacted to the speculation surrounding her medical treatment of Anna Nicole. On how many medications she was prescribing to Anna at the time of her death, Eroshevich said, “By then she was on maybe 4 or 5 medications. Some of them were routine and some were as needed. We were talking about even cutting back.”

When asked if she was afraid to have her medical license revoked, Eroshevich told ET, “Not really. I would hope that who I am and what I do represents the quality of service I provide. The same thing I’m saying now I would say to the medical board. I feel like I did the right thing. I feel confident.”

Dr. Eroshevich explained her treatment of Anna Nicole, “Anna was beside herself, she was suffering from the pain of the C-section, she was beside herself that Daniel was dead. We were looking for way to calm her down. She needed her medication.”

According to a medical examiner’s report, Eroshevich provided Anna Nicole Smith with all 11 prescription medications found in Smith’s hotel room the day she died and several of the prescriptions were in Stern’s name.

ET spoke to Howard K. Stern back in October 2006, just a month after Anna Nicole lost her son Daniel to an accidental drug overdose. He told ET, “It’s something so horrible you can’t even imagine. There’s no way for anybody to understand what Anna was going through when Daniel passed.”

When ET sat down with Anna Nicole back in January 2007, in her last interview before her death, she told ET, “It’s not true. So not true that he’s (Howard) always giving me drugs.”

In an e-mail obtained by ET written by Anna Nicole to a friend back in October 2006, almost a month after Daniel’s death, Anna said, “I miss him, I want to die!”

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Howard K. Stern, the lawyer and confidante to the late Anna Nicole Smith testified on Tuesday that he was unaware that the playmate’s son, Daniel, was taking prescription medication — including Methadone.

Stern gave his testimony today as part of the ongoing inquest into Daniel’s death. The 20-year-old died on Sept.r 10, 2006, three days after his mother gave birth to her daughter and his half sister, Dannielynn Hope, in the Bahamas.

Stern said that from September 2005 until June 2006, he wasn’t around as much because he was working on Anna’s fight with Pierce Marshall (the late son of her husband, J. Howard Marshall who died in 1995).

Stern also denied bringing a duffel bag full of medication into Anna’s hospital room in the Bahamas, where Daniel died. He said that neither he nor Anna brought any medication into the hospital and that he never, under any circumstances, gave Daniel Methadone. He also said that he never saw Anna give Daniel any drugs.

When asked what his reaction was to Daniel’s toxicology report, which showed Methadone and other prescription drugs in his system, Stern said he didn’t believe it.

Stern also discussed the famous photo that he took of Anna holding her dead son in the hospital room. Howard said Anna would not believe that Daniel had died and said that she wanted to bring him home with her. Stern testified that Anna asked him to take a photo because she couldn’t accept her son’s death and needed the picture for proof.

Stern also said that after he took the photo, he never made any money off of it and would do it again.

Stern said that Anna had a prescription for Methadone, but when she discovered that she was pregnant, she reduced her dosage, and was told by doctors that if she quit cold turkey, she would lose the baby.

By the time she gave birth, Stern says, she was off Methadone entirely.

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