Lone Activist Group Submits 99.8% of FCC Complaints

Posted by CowboyNeal on Monday December 6, 2004 @11:24AM from the vocal-minority dept.

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.'"

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Re:PTC is wrong by Mr.+Ghost · 2004-12-07 02:54 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I did a little PL/I programming for about a year. I really liked the language. The only problem I had with it was that it had billions of options for how to handle parameters and stuff. I even did some JNI programming to use some PL/I parsing/scanning code that I helped develop.

The syntax is pretty old-fashonned by compared to todays languages but it was still a pretty fun language to pick up.

Of course if I had to develop in it full-time for years I may have gone of the deep end.