November 25, 2008
The Federal Communication Commission, interpreting a federal law that makes it a crime to broadcast obscene, indecent, or profane language, issued a regulation which provides:
"No licensee of a radio or television broadcast station shall broadcast on any day between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. any material which is indecent."
In 2002 and 2003 Fox Television [...]
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July 23, 2008
You may remember the halftime show at the 2004 Superbowl, in which Justin Timberlake ended a suggestive duet by tearing the covering off of Janet Jackson's breast. Her breast was revealed for "nine-sixteenths of one second," but the result was outrage. The FCC, which received 542,000 complaints, imposed an "indecency" penalty of $550,000 on CBS [...]
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