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...sexual innuendo, skin and what constitutes “offensive.” And, frankly, Dartboard doesn’t feel she has the authority or insight to decide what the limits should be; for that matter, however, she doesn’t feel the Federal Communications Committee (FCC) and Chair Michael Powell have a good grasp either...
...Wednesday, the FCC fined CBS News $550,000 for the Super Bowl debacle last February, in which Janet Jackson got unexpectedly intimate with upwards of 90 million people at the hands of one Justin Timberlake. The two were performing during half-time and Timberlake got gropy mid-routine, ripping at Jackson’s jacket—and revealing the singer’s right breast. (Timberlake deemed the mistake a “wardrobe malfunction,” but while Dartboard agrees that Timberlake is a complete dolt, his incoherence doesn’t warrant such a fine.) Despite...
Clearly, the fine isn’t going to break the network’s bank. The problem is, rather, that this penalty is the largest ever issued by the FCC against a television broadcaster. This seems to suggest that Powell and his minions found this display to be the most inappropriate in television history. And if that’s the case, the FCC is ridiculously out-of-touch with primetime programming—not too farfetched an idea considering Powell’s history of misguided policies (read: his crusade for media deregulation...
...FCC is going to work towards making primetime programming more appropriate, it should do so uniformly—without singling out one network for something considerably less offensive than what most networks broadcast routinely. Pervasive sexual innuendo on sitcoms, the increasingly tasteless themes of reality television shows, and the lack of quality programming for kids is far more detrimental to the impressionable minds of tomorrow. But, given Powell’s record, Dartboard won’t hold her breath...
...really choose to refer to the totality of mass communication as if it were guided by a single will? Perhaps current usage of “the media” (sing.) is a symptom of the trend towards nation-wide uniformity spearheaded by Michael Powell’s rampant FCC deregulation, which has stunted local programming and brought even the likes of Ted Turner to public protest...