| Demosthenes |
2004-02-02 07:13 PM |
What the hell is wrong with the FCC?
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Originally Posted by www.reuters.com
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An outraged Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell on Monday ordered an investigation into the broadcast of the Super Bowl's halftime entertainment show, during which singer Janet Jackson's right breast was exposed.
During the break in the National Football League's championship game, pop singer Justin Timberlake reached for Jackson as they sang a duet and tore open part of her black leather bustier.
"That celebration was tainted by a classless, crass and deplorable stunt," Powell said in a statement. "Our nation's children, parents and citizens deserve better."
Television networks are already on the defensive, with the FCC taking a more aggressive stand against indecency over the airwaves and Congress threatening to sharply raise the fines for such incidents.
Viacom Inc.'s CBS television network, which aired the show, and MTV, which produced the halftime bonanza, apologized for what they described as an unscripted moment.
A spokesman for CBS had no immediate comment on the probe and a Viacom spokesman was not immediately available for comment.
"We attended all rehearsals throughout the week and there was no indication that any such thing would happen," CBS said. "The moment did not conform to CBS broadcast standards and we would like to apologize to anyone who was offended."
Powell promised a "thorough and swift" investigation by the agency's enforcement division. Scores of complaints were coming in to the FCC about Jackson and other portions of the entertainment segment of the game.
When the FCC was bombarded with complaints about the fashion show by lingerie retailer Victoria's Secret that aired on Walt Disney Co.'s ABC broadcast network in 2001, the agency declined to take action because the material was not "so graphic or explicit as to be patently offensive."
CBS picked up the lingerie show after ABC reportedly declined to air the fashion show the following year. As part of a tougher stance against indecency at times when children are likely to be watching, the FCC is considering action against General Electric Co.'s NBC television network for an incident in which U2 rocker Bono said "f---ing brilliant" when accepting an award on a live broadcast.
Federal indecency rules bar the broadcast of obscene material and limit the airing of indecent material that contains sexual or excretory references in a patently offensive manner to late night hours when children are less likely to be watching.
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What the hell is wrong with the FCC? Who really gives a fuck if her breast was exposed. So be it. It happend, now let it be. If it was unscripted, as they say it was, then why the hell would you try to fine them? It was an accident. Let it die already. And if it wasn't an accident, it was funny anyway.
Goddamn these idiot parents calling the FCC with their complaints. Deal with it bitch. You are not going to accomplish anything. What has happend has happend. Do you think that by trying to get money from the TV station little Bobby is going to forget? You can try and brainwash him and tell him it was something else, but complaining to the FCC is not going to help. What in the hell do you think you are protecting your children from? Don't you know little nine year old Bobby is sitting at his computer right now finding out just what the hell is in those hidden files daddy has? If you want your kids to be retarted and not know shit, then you deal with it, dont take it out on some TV station because you can't handle your own fucking kids.
And why in the hell would someone get in trouble saying "fuck". Good lord motherfuckers, you hear that everyday in elementary. OOH he said fuck. Big whoop. The same parents who take their kids to watch Terminator are complaining about somebody saying "fuck" on NBC? I swear to god some people make no goddamn sense at all.
Your kids are going to grow up and learn about all this stuff by the time they get to junior-high anyway. Instead of bitching about what happend, why don't you take some time to educate your kid about what happend, and if you can't do that then why the hell do you have a child? |
