Posted on 02/24/2006 7:05:39 AM PST by mft112345
On February 23, 2006 during her nationally broadcast 4 PM show, aired on WJLA in Washington D.C., Oprah interviewed three female sex addicts (http://www.oprah.com/tows/pastshows/200602/tows_past_20060223.jhtml). During the interview, Oprah stooped to the level of Howard Stern and asked one guest if she had "let men ej*!%$@te in her face." This reference to excretion clearly violates community standards and should be investigated by the FCC.
In fact, in the FCC's Indecent Broadcast Restrictions, the agency states that it "has defined broadcast indecency as 'language or material that, in context, depicts or describes, in terms patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards for the broadcast medium, sexual or excretory organs or activities.' Indecent programming contains patently offensive sexual or excretory material that does not rise to the level of obscenity."
The FCC also warns that indecent speech "is prohibited on broadcast radio and television between the hours of 6 a.m. and 10 p.m." Oprah's indecent comment was aired during the prohibited hours, reaching the ears of thousands of young children.
Oprah's question might not meet the Supreme Court's definition of obscenity -- 1. appealing to the prurient interest, 2. patently offensive, and 3. lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value --, but the broadcast of her gratuitous question was harmful to our national culture and insensitive to viewers with young children in the room. Like Superbowl viewers, parents had no way to know that Oprah's performance would get so graphic, and her producers offered no content warning at any time during the show. The battle for ratings has fewer and fewer limits at an hour when many children have just come home from school.
File a complaint through the FCC website: http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/obscene.html
http://svartifoss2.fcc.gov/cib/fcc475B.cfm.
I googled it and now I'm sorry I did!
You are absolutely right.
1) I have never watched as much as a single minute of Oprah.
2) I don't care what anyone says over the airwaves because all broadcast programs can be turned OFF.
3) The FCC is a joke and they should stop investigating complaints of "offensive language".
4) Usually when I discuss "ejaculate" as a sexual function with people I know, I've used normal language that REAL people use, not the clinical word "ejaculate".
[I suggest that female sex addicts be sent to me for further study.]
Female sex addicts are like cities: A nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there.
Being married to one would be fun for awhile, but you have to go to work sometime. And when you do, she'll be over at the neighbors' houses.
In the interest of fairness, I would guess male sex addicts would be no different.
Oprah is part of Americana...I'm proud to say I've been on the Oprah show...you try to come up with a topic for a show every single day. Sometimes she slips up. She'll realize that soon enough. It's really not such a big deal. And sex addiction is a disease.
That's your job. Quit demanding government steal your neighbor's money to control your TV set the way you wish.
No wonder the Republican Party has gone crazy squandering our hard-earned money.
Who watches Ophrah?
LOL! Inquiring minds...
Part of the stupid part of Americana.
She is a major waste of broadcast time. Then again, she's hardly the only one..
Yawn..
I've never seen it, not even when my wife (now ex) was on it.
I understand that she has a program which she has to sell to advertisers by making it as appealing to her audience as possible, and she is so good at doing it that she makes many millions of dollars a year.
I have no reason to believe that her program is immoral or unethical (despite what her critics may say about the content) and if she gets rich with her program, who am I to complain?
Yet another reason my home's TVs are only either showing my Xbox games and my MST3K DVDs and tapes.
Oh, ok. i'm familiar with that story. Didn't know the author's name. Thought it was maybe another Amber Frey story.
Then Mom ought to turn off the TV and help the kids with their homework.
That's the part of the Oprah show that really bothers me--her incessant need to play psychologist when a psychiatrist is doing the talking. She's always the voice of authority.
THE BEST YOU CAN SAY IS SHE IS JUST ANOTHER DIRTY MINDED OLD FEMALE!
Wait..so your wife (and she was your wife at the time) was on it, and you still didn't watch it? Kinda understand why she's your ex-wife in that case. Is there a good explanation for why you didn't watch? I'm all ears.
I disagree. Have you ever even watched the show?
I've seen a few minutes of it - it was an informercial for the Weep Industry. Perfect for the stay-at-home bonbon-munching set.
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