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Posted on 09/06/2006 10:46:23 AM PDT by Iam1ru1-2
Ask the FCC to enforce broadcast decency laws should CBS air profane language during prime-time viewing hours this Sunday evening
Earlier I wrote you about the plans by CBS to air "9/11" containing hardcore profanity during primetime viewing (Supreme Court's 'safe-harbour') hours when children are most likely to be watching television. The program is schedule to air this Sunday evening.
Because of your actions, CBS announced they would not seek sponsors for the program. But they also said, sponsors or no sponsors, that they will not mute the profanity.
A growing number of CBS affiliates have publicly stated that they would not carry the program. Other affiliates are expected to drop the show or air it late at night. Those that do carry it risk at fine of $325,000 for each indecent incident. Potential fines could run into the millions of dollars.
But CBS has responded by saying that the profanity is ok to broadcast to children because it will be shown "in context" of the program itself.
If the FCC allows this as an acceptable excuse to air the profanity, it leaves the door open for CBS to show anything and everything because anything, and everything, is always "in context."
For instance, suppose CBS decides they want to air a documentary concerning pornography. Using CBS's logic, the network could show actual hardcore pornographic scenes in an "after school special" saying the scenes are "in context" and necessary because they are an integral part of the documentary.
The phrase "in context" means that CBS could (and would) show anything because it is "in context." In the final analysis "in context" means nothing is exempt.
I urge you to email the FCC urging them to reject the "in context" argument. A copy will also go to CBS. And please forward this to your friends and family.
Take Action
Send the email to the FCC asking them to reject the "in context" argument.
Contact your local CBS affiliate" and ask them not to air "9/11." Tell them you are prepared to file a formal complaint with the FCC if they do.
Please inform your friends and family.
Click Here to Email the FCC Now!
Screw the AFA.
This for one:
during primetime viewing (Supreme Court's 'safe-harbour') hours when children are most likely to be watching television.
It is NOT the Supreme Court, but the FCC itself:
The bill is modeled after the FCC's indecency safe harbor, which requires broadcasters to air indecent programming only between 10 p.m.-6 a.m. The Supreme Court has upheld the constitutionality of an indecency safe harbor.
Also I an unable to find any source/Google that states CBS is suing the FCC.
You seem to know a lot about dosages. You must be a pill popper...Huh?
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OK. I'm throwing the yellow flag on you now. You've used "sweet bippy" and "pill popper" in the same thread.
Welcome to the 21st century. It's been a long sleep since you went into that coma folllowing an episode of "Laugh In".
Why don't we cut through all the crap and just say, we want total freedom to see anything on TV we want to see, without any restrictions, extra payments, or ratings. That's what these people who advocate vulgar profanity to be aired really want. No censorship of anything!!
"What is this "safe harbour" thing......especially as it applies to the Supreme Court?"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_dirty_words
Well, we're considering letting a couple of eleven-and-a-half year-olds see it. If they were considered old enough to be REQUIRED to make "Pinwheels for Peace" in their fifth-grade art class last year, maybe it's not too soon to show them a part of what actually happened five years ago, when they were really too young to fully understand.
But, I taped it the first time around, and showing it to them can always wait until another year.
The school, unfortunately, will probably not wait to ram more leftist peacenik BS down their throats. And grade them on it, too.
The networks ALWAYS appeal any ruling that goes against them when the FCC violates the indecency rules.
Normally all it results in is a lowering of the monetary amount to be paid as a fine and nothing more.
I'm guessing this pompus fool is associating an appeal of a ruling with "suing" the FCC.
Which is a false assumption on High and Mighty's part.
As far as this Safe Harbour thingy...all I can find on it pertains to the Federal TRADE Comission and the Clintonian Digital Millenium Copyright Act.
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You are a total absolutist. There are such things as context, exceptions, and allowances. There is grey between white and black. I think you will be a much reasonable person once you realize that, and take a tranquilizer
"Also I an unable to find any source/Google that states CBS is suing the FCC."
http://www.culturalcommons.org/announcedetail.cfm?ID=488
Thanks.
It's a school night. Any "children" should be in bed long before the first plane hits and the profanity starts.
There, how's that.
I don't know of many kids being in bed during primetime hours.
If you allow them to stay up until eleven on a school night, that's your headache.
And personally, I don't know of any kids who have ever clamored to see anything on CBS at any hour.
The amount is meaningless as well. It's like fining someone a nickel each time they say a naughty word. CBS can write the fines off on their taxes.
Do you have any idea how clueless you sound regarding the media? The goal of CBS and any other broadcaster isn't to be as offensive as they can "get away with." The goal is to get as many people watching as possible. The more people who watch, the more they can charge for advertising.
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