Feds sue Fox over FCC defiance
Cory Bergman April 6th, 2008
The FCC fined Fox $56,000 for airing pixelated body parts in “Married to America,” which aired four years ago. News Corp. has yet to pay the fine. So now the Department of Justice is suing. Meanwhile, Fox is still fighting other FCC fines in court. What’s at stake? Nothing less than live TV, say the networks. “I don’t know how we could police it any more,” said one network executive. “I think you would drastically reduce if not eliminate live programming.”
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1. Anonymous | April 6th, 2008 at 9:17 pm
Dear FCC and the Parents Television Council - kiss my unpixelated ass.
You don’t like whats on TV, change the fricking channel instead of expecting everyone to kowtow to your conservative fundamentalist beliefs.
The television is not an acceptable babysitter to cover for your failures as a parent.
2. John Dale | April 9th, 2008 at 5:18 am
Living in Europe it is fascinating to see how the US judicial system uses its time on suing channels for showing what is the most natural thing in the world - the human body.
As if your children would be harmed if it watched a nipple? Isn’t it worse that the same child can watch as much violence, shootings etc as it wants?
I wonder how many millons of dollars is used to protect people from watching the human body on tv..
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