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Scott Horowitz | March 16, 2006
Shit like this pisses me off

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I really hate the FCC

Scott, I'm sorry if I get you fined for saying that... lol

Michael Paul Cote | March 16, 2006
Sounds like they are just trying to raise enough money to give themselves raises.

Scott Hardie | March 27, 2006
On one hand, of course I agree; who wants to be told what is indecent or inappropriate for them to consume? Parents have asked for the government to protect their children from media instead of doing it themselves, and now we get the natural consequence of that. While corporate speech is not free speech, it's still a very blurry line between what's decent and indecent, and if everything that someone found indecent was taken off the air then we wouldn't have television any more. (Let's not forget that "Trapped in the Closet" has already been taken out of the rotation on Comedy Central because one movie star found it offensive.)

On the other hand: $3.9 million? That's a lot for an episode of Without a Trace I suppose, but for a major TV event that's a drop in a bucket. That's one Super Bowl commercial. How is that going to stop another "wardrobe malfunction"? Viacom can thumb their noses at the FCC, pay the maximum possible fine (assuming they pay individual stations' fines for them), and still rake in a fortune.