Nothing that's right after all the hearings and the uproar over Janets babay feeding device being displayed for a microsecond on national tv not one finethis year.
You don't think all of that concern was grandstanding by both parties do you?
Whatever happened to the government crackdown on bare breasts and bad words?
The Federal Communications Commission levied a record $7.9 million in indecency-related fines last year, raising concerns among media companies that regulators were embracing a nanny-like approach to enforcing decency standards. Programming changes followed, among them the departure of shock-jock Howard Stern to the FCC-free world of satellite radio, taking millions of advertising dollars with him.
The FCC has received more than 189,000 indecency complaints against radio and television programs through the end of September, but it hasn't issued any fines. The inaction is puzzling to FCC watchers, who expected enforcement activity to ratchet up under Kevin Martin, the new FCC chairman and an outspoken supporter of increasing indecency fines and holding broadcasters more accountable.
"It's high time they started doing something," says L. Brent Bozell, president of the Parents Television Council, a watchdog group that encourages members to use its Web site to send complaints to the FCC. Mr. Bozell says he supports Mr. Martin and believes the FCC will act soon. The group was one of several organizers of complaints about Janet Jackson's breast-baring appearance at the Super Bowl in 2004. That event was largely responsible for touching off a record 1.4 million indecency complaints the FCC received that year.
This year, FCC officials planned to release a bundle of fines that would address a backlog of more than 50 outstanding complaints and provide broadcasters with clearer indecency guidelines. The guidelines were expected to get tougher: Mr. Martin, for example, has expressed support for assigning fines "per utterance" of a word deemed to be indecent, rather than once per show, no matter how many times it was uttered. And he supports the notion of holding performers as well as broadcasters accountable for violating decency standards and subjecting them both to fines.
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The aftermath of Janet's ni**le
