Posted on 12/21/2004 6:26:18 AM PST by presidio9
In the home stretch of 2004, the Federal Communications Commission, the official enforcer of the nation's anti-smut standards, has so far received more than a million complaints about public radio and television programming. That's a record and so is the close to $8 million in fines levied, half of them against Clear Channel Communications and Viacom.
The numbers suggest a few things: the minds of entertainment industry honchos are getting a whole lot dirtier, Americans are fed up, and indecency watchdogs in Washington, D.C. are writing tickets faster than a traffic cop on a quota.
But things are never what they suggest.
MediaWeek, an entertainment industry trade journal, reported last week that just about 100 percent of the complaints filed in 2003 and 2004 (not counting the 530,000 official gripes over the Janet Jackson episode) were filed by the Parents Television Council, a 10 year-old group boasting more than a million members whose self-described goal is "to restore television to its roots as an independent and socially responsible entertainment medium."
To register a complaint through the council, all it takes today are a few mouse clicks on a near-complete form posted on the Internet.
The council has not only disputed the FCC data -- and since called for a Congressional investigation of the agency -- but it has also objected loudly to the implication that a "small minority of agenda-driven Americans" is using online activism to stoke the indecency fire.
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Whoa, watch that hand.
It's ALL good.
LOL!
And then the most wrong thing ever to exist pops into my head:
Freddie Mercury singing "Fat Bottomed Girls"...
I am at a loss to find anything of merit in any Jackson thing.....
For your ping list, perhaps? ;D
Thanks.
A real Beast Butt! :)
OK, I saw Anna's butt butt no breasts yet. Unless you count the boob linked to in # 29.
What ever are YOU doing on a thread like this??
I am so, so, VERY shocked at you Arghie!!!
Oh, that was some other freeper named Argh, Miss Neets.
Phewwwwwww~!
You had me scared there for a minute, young man.
You know I don't go in for that cheap physical stuff, like everyone else around here.
Where in the program listing did it say that the Superbowl Half Time Show would cap off with the exhibition of a mutilated nipple?
Very nice photo!
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