The Supreme Court on Tuesday is scheduled to hear arguments on a case that could dramatically change the rules regarding indecency and profanity and, conceivably, open the way to X-rated content on broadcast television.
Broadcasters allege the Federal Communications Commission is violating the First Amendment by imposing fines for on-air indecency. The case relates to fines issued for expletives uttered on awards shows by Nicole Richie and Cher on FoX and a scene involving a nude actress on NYPD Blue, broadcast by ABC television.
The two networks, joined by NBC and CBS, are asking the court to overturn a 34-year-old ruling that allows the FCC to regulate broadcast profanity and indecency. Cable and satellite television and the Internet are outside the FCC’s control, however, and that is part of the problem.
The networks say, with justification, that the rule isn’t fair. And even if it was fair three decades ago, changes in how television content is delivered have changed how the medium is used. Back then, the FCC used the justification that radio and television were “uniquely accessible to children” and had a “uniquely pervasive presence in the lives of all Americans.”
Indeed with the recent Supreme Court ruling that corporations have the same rights as citizens how can the Supreme Court not overturn this ruling? Free speech is free speech and even though the current court leans towards conservative if they are going to be ideologically true to their recent rulings this is going to be stricken.
What does that leave for the FCC to do? Lease bandwidth is about all…maybe it’s time to get rid of it. Less bureaucracy is better bureaucracy.
I wouldn’t expect to see 24/7 porn on a over the air station anytime soon but it could happen in the future specially on a secondary channel. What it would do is clear the way for more programming like “The Sopranos, Dexter, and Deadwood to show up on over the air TV as well as the broadcast of uncut R rated movies. These would be way over due and welcome changes in my opinion.
Will We Soon be Able To Watch Porn On Prime Time?
The Supreme Court on Tuesday is scheduled to hear arguments on a case that could dramatically change the rules regarding indecency and profanity and, conceivably, open the way to X-rated content on broadcast television.
Broadcasters allege the Federal Communications Commission is violating the First Amendment by imposing fines for on-air indecency. The case relates to fines issued for expletives uttered on awards shows by Nicole Richie and Cher on FoX and a scene involving a nude actress on NYPD Blue, broadcast by ABC television.
The two networks, joined by NBC and CBS, are asking the court to overturn a 34-year-old ruling that allows the FCC to regulate broadcast profanity and indecency. Cable and satellite television and the Internet are outside the FCC’s control, however, and that is part of the problem.
The networks say, with justification, that the rule isn’t fair. And even if it was fair three decades ago, changes in how television content is delivered have changed how the medium is used. Back then, the FCC used the justification that radio and television were “uniquely accessible to children” and had a “uniquely pervasive presence in the lives of all Americans.”
Indeed with the recent Supreme Court ruling that corporations have the same rights as citizens how can the Supreme Court not overturn this ruling? Free speech is free speech and even though the current court leans towards conservative if they are going to be ideologically true to their recent rulings this is going to be stricken.
What does that leave for the FCC to do? Lease bandwidth is about all…maybe it’s time to get rid of it. Less bureaucracy is better bureaucracy.
I wouldn’t expect to see 24/7 porn on a over the air station anytime soon but it could happen in the future specially on a secondary channel. What it would do is clear the way for more programming like “The Sopranos, Dexter, and Deadwood to show up on over the air TV as well as the broadcast of uncut R rated movies. These would be way over due and welcome changes in my opinion.
Mike
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