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Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Fox TV stations fined for indecency
STLtoday.com - Entertainment: "Regulators on Friday fined 13 Fox TV stations $7,000 each for a 2003 episode of 'Married by America' that included graphic scenes from bachelor and bachelorette parties."
without getting started on censorship, don't they realize that all 13 of these stations were playing syndicated content? and this content was from 2003! 5 years ago! I'm glad Fox is calling this unconstitutional, and I hope it ends up in court. the FCC needs to step back on a lot of its policies.
I don't know very much information related to what this article discusses, however I do see why some would find this material on television to be a problem. From one side, there is the concern that such material may be viewed by younger individuals, however at the same time, there are ways to personally solve that problem ourselves. And as Bryan pointed out, this wasn't filmed yesterday either. I am sure this is complicated from all angles.
The FCC should publish a detailed set of rules for what can and can not be broadcast. If they enforce the “standards of decency” then they should define what these are. It is obvious that nudity is not allowed on broadcast television, but historically the blurring or pixilation of nudity has been allowed. If the FCC is now not allowing it, they should announce this change of policy before arbitrarily enforcing the policy change.
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without getting started on censorship, don't they realize that all 13 of these stations were playing syndicated content? and this content was from 2003! 5 years ago! I'm glad Fox is calling this unconstitutional, and I hope it ends up in court. the FCC needs to step back on a lot of its policies.
I don't know very much information related to what this article discusses, however I do see why some would find this material on television to be a problem. From one side, there is the concern that such material may be viewed by younger individuals, however at the same time, there are ways to personally solve that problem ourselves. And as Bryan pointed out, this wasn't filmed yesterday either. I am sure this is complicated from all angles.
The FCC should publish a detailed set of rules for what can and can not be broadcast. If they enforce the “standards of decency” then they should define what these are. It is obvious that nudity is not allowed on broadcast television, but historically the blurring or pixilation of nudity has been allowed. If the FCC is now not allowing it, they should announce this change of policy before arbitrarily enforcing the policy change.
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