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Kinchla said that she had a staff member at the telecommunications office register a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC...
When you talk to people about what bothers them in pop culture--if anything does--they tend not to talk about discrete, FCC-finable offenses. They talk about video games, ads, innuendos, magazine covers--things that the FCC doesn't police or that are so nebulous and environmental as to be unpoliceable in a free society. They don't want absolute rules. They want boundaries: they just want to know where the cultural deep end and the kiddie pool...
...women. The right sees the machinations of amoral Hollywood. The left sees soulless megabusinesses dropping their standards to court the coveted 18- to 34-year-old male demographic. "Obviously, you have an incentive to program material that will appeal directly to that market," says Michael Copps, a Democratic FCC commissioner, who argues that the rise of indecency and megamergers are related. "This whole issue of media consolidation goes not only to the quality of entertainment that we get but the very core of civic dialogue and the collective decisions we make as a democracy." But members of both camps...
...exclusive TIME poll, more than half the respondents say there's too much violence, profanity and sex on TV, but most say they aren't personally offended by it and don't want that content banned. Slightly more than half believe the FCC should be stricter, but 66% say it overreacted to Janet Jackson. Yet what may seem like confusion--or just hypocrisy--may also be something too often missing from the indecency debate: subtlety...
...indecency then, context is king. The PTC and the FCC say it was not indecent to air Saving Private Ryan on network TV--even though children might be watching during prime time--because of the context: soldiers swear in war. But of course, mobsters swear too. So could The Sopranos, just as critically praised, air on NBC? Can only good guys drop the F bomb? Indecency activists often cite the dictum of Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart on obscenity: "I know it when I see it." But who knows indecency, and what do they...