FCC pressuring TV to turn into Pleasantville

November 17, 2004

The FCC is on an "indecency" tear lately, making network television and radio nervous about anything they broadcast being remotely construed as racy. In today's chapter of this ever-expanding book, the NFL, ABC, and Disney have apologized profusely for a goofy skit that preceded Monday Night Football's 9PM show, where a woman in a towel drops her towel and hugs a player. Sounds racy right? A hot nekkid woman and a football star ready to get it on!

But here's the rub: only her back was shown on camera and I'm guessing the towel drop was merely suggested in the skit. In the article, a FCC stooge claims a fine would follow if they get a rash of complaints, as a thinly veiled call to arms for prudes everywhere. Outlaw the back! For the children! I think I saw a birthmark! Aaaayyyeee!!!

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Dirtworshiping TreeHugger added:

Just an idea; I emailed ABC about this and told them to stand their ground rather than cowering to the fruitloops, admitted that it was a hard choice but if they keep caving into this christian bully crap then that will be their only audience, who will then probably only watch 1.7 hours a day devoting the rest of their time to prayer and killing brown and gay people. Not so hot for the bottom line.

maybe they need a barrage of 'you still want the rest of america to watch, right?' emails?

Posted on November 17, 2004 12:57 PM

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James added:

Don't forget that Fox was fined $1.2million on the basis of letters written by three people http://www.buzzmachine.com/archives/2004_11_15.html#008481 with more coverage of this general topic at http://www.buzzmachine.com/

Posted on November 18, 2004 6:07 AM

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Pro-Freedom added:

The skit was cheezy with a capital EEZY! They should've yanked it just for that.

Posted on November 28, 2004 11:48 PM

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