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DeepModem Mom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-07-04 09:04 AM
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NYT: Move to Stiffen Decency Rules Is Losing Steam in Washington
Move to Stiffen Decency Rules Is Losing Steam in Washington

By JACQUES STEINBERG

Published: June 7, 2004


After awards-show expletives and Super Bowl breast-baring, federal lawmakers began lining up to attach their names to election-year legislation to rid the airwaves of material they considered indecent.

The House of Representatives even passed a bill in March, on a vote of 391 to 22, that would greatly increase the financial penalties on broadcasters found to have violated so-called standards of decency.

But for all the legislative posturing, the prospects for such a measure reaching President Bush's desk before the November election appear far less assured than they did a few months ago.

In the Senate, a measure approved by the Commerce Committee in March has yet to be scheduled for discussion by the full body. The delay in bringing the Senate bill to the floor is tied partly to the broader politics of the Senate, where Republicans, who hold a slim 51-seat majority, have had difficulty passing major bills. But for the senators themselves, there is also the peril of investing too much political capital in a divisive issue, which has pitted some social conservatives and child-advocacy groups against big broadcasters and civil rights advocates....

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Moreover, in recent weeks, the issue of the war in Iraq - particularly the prisoner abuse scandal - has moved to the forefront of the national political agenda in a way that was not the case on Super Bowl Sunday, when the exposing of Janet Jackson's right breast during the halftime show caused such a stir. Politicians who push too hard on the decency issue may risk appearing to have their priorities out of whack....


http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/07/business/media/07decency.html

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mark0rama Donating Member (930 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-07-04 09:11 AM
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1. Heh heh, "stiffen".
Sorry, just getting in touch with my inner Beavis this morning!
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LittleApple81 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-07-04 09:13 AM
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2. Oh...oh...oh What is going to happen to rep. Heather Wilson (R-NM)
During the JJ boob browhaha: she was crying, crying, crying...her children and the world's children had been irreparably damaged from seen Jeanette Jackson's boob...but she did no say peep about the Cialis ad in the same program talking about erectile dysfunction...hmmmmmmmm
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lanparty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-07-04 09:18 AM
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3. They're figuring out ...

That it was just a boob. Hell, most red-blooded Republicans probably thought it was "cool".

People need to get over their weird taboo about the human body.

IT WAS JUST A BREAST!!!!!!
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Philostopher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-07-04 09:24 AM
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5. What they're really figuring out ...
is that sex sells, and if they take all the sex out of what people can buy, people will buy less.

$$$ talks, bullshit walks. Sex makes money. It's a story as old as time itself.

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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-07-04 09:20 AM
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4. They got Howard Stern off a few stations
That was all they wanted. Now, it's back to stuffing their pockets as usual.
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Randypiper Donating Member (527 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-07-04 09:28 AM
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6. Eric Idle's FCC song
I just found this gem.
http://www.pythonline.com/plugs/idle/index.shtml
I hope it is new to the Forum.
Listener discretion advised.
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