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FCC to Require Broadcasters to Keep Tapes of Shows
The Importance of writes "Under current FCC rules, in order to make an indecency complaint about a broadcast you have to provide "a significant excerpt from the program or a full or partial tape or transcript of the program." However, broadcasters aren't required to keep a tape of their broadcasts so, rarely, an indecency complaint gets dismissed for lack of evidence. But that is going to change. The FCC has issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking [PDF] [TXT] that will require broadcasters to maintain recordings of their broadcasts for 60-90 days. The FCC is also considering reducing what you must claim in order to enter a complaint, thus opening the floodgates for indecency complaints by groups like the Parents Television Council, which is already keeping the FCC censors busy. Doesn't the government have better things to do?"
"Fuck" is so obscene that the FCC can't even spell it out in a document that defines it as an obscene word? America sucks SO very much.
Great. So what was the rating for the Superbowl? The half time show could not have been TV-Y even with out Jackson's bare breast. It was lewd and indecent. I just wanted to watch the premier football game with my family. We had to turn off the TV for the half time show as it got ever increasingly raunchy. As a result we missed part of the third quarter.
It seems to me that in exchange for the privilege of exclusive use of part of the airwaves the programming must be acceptable to the vast majority of people. There is too much violence and indecency on the public broadcast medium already. When you say as a parent I have to monitor my children's viewing, fine, I already do but when supposedly mainstream programming shows crap like the half time show then I can't rely on any rating scheme. Just cut my efforts off at the knees. I guess the only solution is to toss the TV out of the house and only read books to my children until they are old enough to deal with these things. My youngest one loves books over TV anyway.
For those who want this crap in their homes I say to you go fetch it. It's in stores and on the internet. It is much easier to keep things out of my home when they are not beemed directly in to it.
i dont get your point between good moral citizens and that religion has no part of the schools.
i think both are correct.
just because something is the parents responsibility does not mean the schools cant share in it.
and religion has neither to with either.
keeping tapes of radio/tv broadcasts is one of the requirements of a broadcasting license issued by the government.
Congratulations, my Amerikan comrades.
Yeah, that sounds much better than the more accurate "Repealing of the 5th Amendment Law."
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