Most FCC complaints come from single group

[Stevious]

Washington, DC, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- Nearly all the indecency complaints made to the Federal Communications Commission in 2003 were generated by a single group, Mediaweek.com said.

http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20041207-012547-5886r.htm

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1. Interesting, huh? Oberman covered this last night on countdown.

[DainBramaged]

2. L. Brent Bozell-pond scum is a skyscraper scraper next to him

No single other scumbag should be on Larry Flynt's research list than this dirtbag. I am seriously hoping he joins the list of outed Rethugs soon. He has decided that his vision of morality is best for the rest us, screw the Constitution.

I am surprised the Moonie Times carried the story at all.

[The Judged]

3. Equal protection under the law? Who elected them to represent me?

[No Mandate Here.]

4. TV morals / An activist group learns to work the FCC

is the title of the middle editorial in today's Pittsburgh Post Gazette.

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But what if there were an independent group that aggressively monitored television with an eye toward catching "dirty" broadcasts? And what if that group conducted an organized campaign to complain to the FCC at the slightest hint of indecency? Would the complaint policy still make sense?

A recent estimate from the FCC's Enforcement Bureau suggests that is exactly what's going on: {i]99.8 percent of the 240,000 complaints in 2003 were filed by the Parents Television Council, a group founded specifically to restore television to being a socially responsible medium. According to the PTC's Web site, the group maintains a database of more than 89,000 hours of television. When it finds suggestive content on television shows, the PTC issues e-mail alerts and enables users to submit complaints directly from its Web site.

Some of those form-letter complaints were likely submitted against the Fox show "Married by America," which drew a fine of $1.2 million in October for showing partially blurred strippers. Although the FCC said at the time that there were 159 complaints against the show, it now says that only 23 were from different people. According to Fox Broadcasting, all but four were identical and only one person mentioned actually watching the show.

Certainly, much of what is shown on TV is tawdry and of debatable taste. But there has to be a better system to actually measure public intolerance. Otherwise, a whole nation of TV viewers will be forced to ride on the PTC's morality train.

(italics in the original)

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The P-G Editorial Board must be reading DU more and more, and the other fine blogs who have been exposing Bozell for the slimeball he is.

<http://www.postgazette.com/pg/04345/424571.stm>