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...though “I drank from the wine that came from inside / the heart of his meat and the splurge of his sweet” is a little more explicit, it’s still couched in enough euphemism to have gotten past the Breen Office or the FCC. However, there are exceptions for those who are paying close enough attention; lines like “I kissed his ugly gangly greens, he swallowed my pee” and “I want another enema” are likely to make some hit the scan-backwards button...
...apparent to most of us in broadcasting that your father got you your job." HOWARD STERN, U.S. talk-radio host, in an interview with U.S. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell, son of Secretary of State Colin Powell. Stern's show has been fined twice by the fcc for obscenity
...vulgarity and apparent immaturity of the tracks on this jam-packed album, which features thirteen joke sketches and seven innocuously amusing songs, you’ve got to give Sandler a morsel of credit for releasing a somewhat offensive string of impolite tracks in this day and age of FCC crackdown and Howard Stern censorship...
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...