The TV Police
Wednesday, June 07, 2006
Quick! Tune your televisions to EWTN and ABC Family. The television police are out for BLOOD. The government fined CBS affiliates millions of dollars for broadcasting Janet Jackson's live T.V. wardrobe malfunction. Now, they want 10 times more money, if a "shit," a "fuck," or God forbid, A BREAST makes air. It is sickening and mind-blowing to think that THIS is what our government is concerned about. Just beyond pathetic.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The government's power to punish broadcasters
for indecent programming such as the 2004 Super Bowl "wardrobe
malfunction" would increase tenfold under legislation Congress is
ready to approve.
The House on Tuesday began debating the Senate-passed bill that
would boost the top fines the Federal Communications Commission
could impose on broadcasters from the current $32,500 to $325,000
for each violation. A vote was scheduled for Wednesday afternoon.
The bill, said Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., will "help ensure
American families that broadcast television and radio programming
will be free of indecency, obscenity (and) profanity at times when
their children are likely to be tuning in."
The legislation, expected to be signed by President Bush, is
another outgrowth of Janet Jackson's breast-revealing incident at
the Super Bowl that has made the FCC more aggressive in cracking
down on indecent and obscene material on TV and radio airwaves and
in turn has prompted broadcasters to be more cautious in the
material they air.
Labels: television
posted by jc @ 8:14 AM,
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