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Lone Activist Group Submits 99.8% of FCC Complaints
andywebz writes "Mediaweek is reporting that complaints to the FCC are rising. Powell spoke before congress, detailing that the complaints are up from 14,000 in 2002, to nearly 240,000 in 2003. There were only 350 complaints during 2000 and 2001. Powell failed to mention however that 99.8% of those complaints came from PTC (Parents Television Council). The article does mention he may have been unaware of this fact. Jonathan Rintels (president of the Center for Creative Voices in Media) commented, 'It means that really a tiny minority with a very focused political agenda is trying to censor American television and radio.'"
In "The Handmaid's Tale" Atwood depicts a world where the religious right takes over. All non fundamentalist Christian relgions are outlawed. Homosexuality is a capital offence as are a whole host of other heresies like being a liberal and speaking against the government. Women are prohibited from all learning including learning to read. Polygamy is the law. Familes are assigned childbearing quotas.
You people elected this White Taliban, you live with it.
It never ceases to amaze me, how liberals are the biggest hypocrites on the planet.
,yes MAJORITY, will then have SUPER MAJORITY's, in the House,the Senate,another 8 years in the White House and another 800 judges appointed to various positions of power.
The PTC is exercising THEIR right to free speech. They are finding THEIR voice.
But since it disagrees with yours, they are now trying to 'censor'.
I hope you guys continue this crap for another 4 years...because then we in the Republican majority
Keep it coming. You are digging your own grave. Maybe you could get Michael Moore to make another movie? The first one was soooooo helpful.
I'm still working on a clever footer.
dude,
you don't "speak for Americans everywhere".
the irony of your message to them is hysterical. you are an idiot.
If "balanced" means "pays a lot of attention to one particular skewed viewpoint from one particular religion" then I guess we're guilty.
Not giving much creedence to a set of beliefs that were invented by some ancient Hebrews five or six thousand years ago isn't bias; it's rationality. Not enjoying the frightened people who demand that everyone conform to their own self-hating concept of "morality" -- priceless.
I, for one, welcome our new Antichrist overlord.
Quoting from a book that is self-contradictory is just a moot point.
Don't ever use anything par real scientific research as scripture. Think.
I'm pretty certain the FTC, however, is U.S. centric.
Does that include Iraq and Afghanistan?
Civics 100. we DO NOT have a constitutional democracy.
we have a REPRESENTITIVE REPUBLIC.
It ticks me off people who think they know what they are talking about when they clearly do not.
Please.. if you don't know what you are talking about, shut up damn. Liberals by and large are stupid, hence why they are liberals. They will believe any crap you spew, if you want a smarter america, then lets at least try to teach them something.
Just three more hours seapeople and you can finally take me away from this crappy God Damned planet full of hippies
Ok, I'll get back on topic now. It's just that the whole "Native American" term is a peeve of mine.
Firstly it is not just Christians that try to force their will on others, it is Muslims, atheists (e.g. U.S.S.R), various warring tribes of "Native Americans", various warring tribes in Africa, various warring tribes in aboriginal Australia, Persians, Egyptians, Hitites, Greeks, English, Germans, Chinese, Japanese, Indians, etc...
To be even more on point there are hundreds of groups in the US just like the PTC who lobby for a cause they believe in. Think Greenpeace (wanting to force their opinion of resource usage on others), PETA (wanting to force their opinion of the equality of animals on others), NRA, Planned Parenthood, American Muslim Council, NAACP, NOW, NAMBLA, etc... It is a fact of life that groups in this country organize to try and get the government to enact laws and regulations that will enforce their opinions/ways of life over others.
I disagree with almost all of these organizations but they very definitely have the right to do what they are doing.