Thursday, June 15, 2006

Bare Breast Being Broadcast Briefly

If you're going to fine someone $325,000 per incident of indecency, you should probably define indecency.
The bill does not apply to cable or satellite broadcasts, and does not try to define what is indecent. The FCC says indecent material is that which contains sexual or excretory material that does not rise to the level of obscenity.

Basically this bill will ensure that what we see on network TV will be increasingly more vanilla and cable networks such as FX, Comedy Central, Bravo and TNT will be the go-to places for real comedy and drama. Next will come an FCC power grab to regulate the cable networks, because they're showing T&A all evening long.

After I saw Janet Jackson's breast on the Superbowl, I knew this would happen. I can't believe (actually I can) that people are so offended about a bare breast being broadcast briefly. Maybe I could understand a little more if it was Bea Arthur's breast instead of Janet Jackson's.

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