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...that war is only getting hotter. Over the past year, a reawakened Federal Communications Commission (FCC), prodded by values activists, has rebuked or fined broadcast networks including CBS, Fox and NBC for flesh and F bombs. Now Congress is gearing up to give the FCC stronger weapons: far steeper fines and possibly the power to regulate decency on cable and satellite radio. (That means you, Howard.) George W. Bush last week named a new FCC chairman, Kevin Martin, who talks even tougher on decency than the departed chair, Michael Powell. To emboldened decency monitors, this is a chance to tame...
...former chair unresponsive to its concerns. ("I don't want the government as my nanny," Powell said in 2001.) Winter, a lifelong Democrat who heads the PTC's Los Angeles and Alexandria offices (to Hollywood, he's the good cop to Bozell's bad cop), says, "We embarrass the FCC. We prove that they're not doing their job, and they are embarrassed...
...Chris Rock. Host of the MTV awards for several years, Rock has been promoting his new gig by bashing the Oscars ("What straight black man sits there and watches the Oscars?" he said last month), raising concerns that his irreverence might be too much for Oscar--or the FCC. But there will probably be a time delay, and Cates insists he isn't worried. "He told me a couple times he never curses in front of his mommy," says Cates, "and his mom's going be at the show." Cates also points out that Rock's hiring isn't exactly...
...million Estimated number of indecency complaints to the FCC this year; 540,000 are related to the Super Bowl half-time show...
...QUESTIONS: Whoopi dishes about her new show, the FCC and Brando...