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Since Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Director Michael K. Powell’s appointment by President Bush in 2001, Powell has championed increased media deregulation, delivering disgraceful amounts of power into the hands of ever-influential media moguls. Moreover, the current FCC has pursued a thoroughly flawed campaign against violators of media regulations. The commission recently issued CBS News the largest fine it has ever issued—for the less-than-horrifying sin of broadcasting a split-seond shot of one of Janet Jackson’s nipples last year. But, despite the commission’s problematic record...
Viacom Inc. and The Walt Disney Co. will pay $1 million and $500,000, respectively, for repeated violations of FCC regulations aimed to curb the commercial inundation of impressionable children. As it stands, the FCC has a host of regulations on programming intended for children age 12 and younger. For instance, the FCC limits the amount of commercial minutes allowed per hour—12 minutes on weekdays, 10 and a half on weekends. Also, to ensure that children don’t become automatonic advertisers for “SpongeBob SquarePants,” networks can?...
...occasions. Disney, via its ABC Family Channel subsidiary, faced similar, if less widespread, charges. But while both corporations offered predictable excuses for their transgressions—citing inadvertent errors resulting from computer and human lapses—the current culture of excessive commercialization is frightening, and the FCC was right to directly censure the companies...
...SURPRISED BY HOWARD STERN'S DEFECTION? No. He's done pretty much all he can do on commercial radio. I understand that FCC chairman Michael Powell is preparing a space-based defense shield, where he's going to employ laser-equipped antisatellite satellites to shoot death rays at these Stern-carrying vehicles. And--I might as well share this with TIME--I'm also leaving Viacom. We're going to broadcast from the bottom of missile silos...
YOUR SHOW IS NOT AS VULGAR AS STERN'S, BUT YOU PUSH THE ENVELOPE. HAVE YOU BEEN HASSLED BY THE FCC, PARTICULARLY AFTER THE JANET JACKSON FLAP? Well, first of all, f___ the FCC. Second of all, I like to think of my program as having a veneer of sophistication that probably inoculates us from the FCC. So I really don't think anybody at the FCC is bright enough to figure out what we're doing...