The FCC fined CBS television a record $3.8 million for ostensibly showing teen orgy/group sex shots during an episode of "Without a Trace." CBS denies any wrongdoing and said it will appeal the fine.
I don’t know about you, but that show’s going on my must watch list!
Seriously, this is going a bit far. I didn’t see the episode, but I seriously doubt there was anything shown beyond the intimation of sexual activity. These fines can be brought (over 300,000 backlogged claims were settled along with the CBS one) by as little as one complaint from a viewer. For instance, Fox-TV was fined when something called the Parent Television Council expressed its displeasure when bubblehead Nicole Richie and co-bubblehead (and dumb as a fox!) Paris Hilton used two profane words.
Heart be still. Two profane words, Janet Jackson’s breast … Good Heavens.
I’m not a big defender of the press’ use of the first amendment to defend virtually everything it does because I DON’T believe we have a right to know EVERYthing. But, if this isn’t a first amendment issue, then I don’t know what is.
If you don’t like what you’re seeing or hearing, there’s an invention called the on/off switch.
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