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FCC Levies Record Indecency Fine
Carl Bialik from WSJ writes "The FCC proposed a record $3.6 million fine against a single TV show, penalizing CBS and its affiliates for an episode of 'Without a Trace' that suggested a teenage sexual orgy, in the first batch of indecency fines proposed in more than a year, the Wall Street Journal reports. 'Overall, the FCC's action didn't provide a broad sweeping vision for broadcasters about what is appropriate for television,' the WSJ says. 'Notably, the FCC backed away from an effort to impose higher fines by holding all network affiliates responsible for a broadcast, instead of just the stations that had been flagged by a viewer in a complaint.'"
Meanwhile, in Holland
Man, the Dutch are so far ahead of us it's not funny.
I wonder too if their real outrage is more at the interracial aspects - there were at least a couple of brief shots of a white girl making out with a black guy. Of course they can't openly complain about that, so they whine in a more general sense. Just a theory.