Saturday 7 June 2008

Fox Bites FCC

If its appeal of an FCC fine is upheld in court, Fox Broadcasting could bring down the regulator's power to enforce indecency regulations. As reported by Broadcasting & Cable, the appeal, filed on Wednesday, argues: that the current indecency ban is unconstitutional because of the ability of parents to employ the V-chip to prevent children from viewing objectionable material; that the notion of indecency is too subjective; that the FCC's regulation on the matter applies only to language, not images, and that in any case, the images in the case at hand -- scenes in the series Married by America -- were pixilated to blur out any explicit nudity.


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