Memo to (FCC chairman) Kevin Martin: GROW UP.

Thursday, March 16, 2006
Memo to Kevin Martin: GROW UP.


This latest round of indecency penalties is chock full of absurdities. A PBS documentary on "The Blues" gets slapped? Does the FCC chairman think he is doing any good with idiot rulings like these?

On the jump, Jonathan Rintels and the group TV Watch put the matter more elegantly.

The following statement was issued by Jonathan Rintels, Executive Director of the Center for Creative Voices in Media, in reaction to today’s FCC decisions on "indecent" television programming.

“Today’s FCC indecency decisions put creative, challenging, controversial, non-homogenized broadcast television programming at risk,” says Jonathan Rintels, Executive Director of the Center for Creative Voices in Media.

“These decisions illustrate the significant problems with the Commission’s enforcement of its indecency rules. They are vague, arbitrary, insufficiently attuned to the context and quality of the program, and bear no relation to “contemporary community standards,” as the Commission’s own rules require. They substitute the Commissioners’ creative and artistic choices for those made by media artists. And they will undoubtedly result in increasing amounts of self-censorship of protected speech by media artists and broadcasters.


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http://blogs.kansascity.com/tvbarn/2006/03/memo_to_kevin_m.html