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...pretty steamy stuff for the middle of the afternoon." MICHAEL J. COPPS, FCC commissioner, who has led a review of indecency in broadcasting, on a television soap opera he inadvertently stumbled upon while channel surfing...
WITH THE NEW FCC CRACKDOWN ON INDECENCY, DO YOU THINK WE ARE ENTERING A MORE REPRESSIVE AGE? There is no question that the repressive, Christian, right-wing, business, criminal, Republican section of our country has gained the upper hand. I think the Patriot Act has been exploited to put more severe controls on our behavior into place than they ever dreamed they would have a chance to implement...
...Number of letters received by the FCC after it ruled that Bono did not violate broadcast-decency standards...
...Number of complaints to the FCC over Bono's use of the F word during last year's Golden Globe Awards...
...mine's a small, oft-told tale of inside baseball, office politics, double standards. . . but you know what?? My case also represents a troubling template for the future.?We know about Howard Stern, Bubba the Love Sponge and a Chicago DJ named "Mancow," raunch-shockmeisters all, awaiting FCC rulings. More insidious is a climate of fear so pervasive even public radio knitters are being axed.? While I won?t be sending KCRW any love letters soon, I understand their worries.? Now that the FCC has raised the fine per incident from $27,000 to $500,000, it?s one slip...