The noisy minority

December 14, 2004

In 2000, the FCC recieved a total of 350 complaints about television indecency. In 2001, again, just 350 letters. In 2002, they got 14,000. Last year, 240,000. Kind of alarming, huh?

That is until you examine who's making all the racket, and it turns out that 99.8% of complaints come from a single source: the Parents Television Council.

Who are these parents? Why, it's a conservative activist group in Los Angeles founded in 1995 by L. Brent Bozell III, president of the Media Research Center, as if you're surprised. Bozell has written several books about the media's "liberal bias" and uses email and the Internet to get the members of the PTC to flood the FCC over anything it feels is icky and immoral and making us all go to hell in a toboggan.

The PTC doesn't deny its power, but is still unhappy about the release of these figures and wants the FCC investigated by Congress.

By the way, if you want to voice your own outrage over the hijacking of America's airwaves, it's ridiculously easy to do.

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Dirtworshiping Treehugger added:

email I sent to http://www.parentstv.org/
you can to!

Editor@parentstv.org

I am a parent of three, 22months, 13 and 15. I am an adult, I have an opposable thumb and a brain and I am not afraid to use either, I don't let my kids watch southpark, its really not that hard to be a good parent without the aid of the FCC trampling on our rights. I am not religious, therefore as an adult I can find nasty stuff on comedy central quite entertaining and would never be offended and when my kids are old enough to know better than to mimic rude behavior they see on TV I will watch it with them without getting my knickers in a twist.

Your group is part of a groundswell of conservatives that are attacking every key element of the freedoms that built this great nation. Its probably already too late for you, the extreme measures you have gone to to shove your moral agenda down our collective throats are already causing massive backlash, you know you have stepped over the line when an average clean cut joe like me wants to push back, its not like its the hells angels that want lingerie biker chics on prime time, its average free Americans that you are stepping on. When you go too far you leave us no choice but to do the same, now instead of compromising and taking it easy on the religious folks in the neighborhood, we have to make sure that somebody keeps some good smut and nasty talk going 24/7 on TV and Radio just so that we can tune in from time to time and make sure this is still America. My youngest watches Noggin, if I catch something obnoxious on that station when I have come to expect good programming for small children I am going to raise hell, not with the FCC but with Noggin, I am their customer, I dont need them fined, what greater fine is there than to lose their customers?

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not sure what good that will do, perhaps with a landslide of mail from the very people the are supposed to be 'helping' - parents they will get scared and maybe tone down their freakshow. Probably pointless, maybe their natural fear of gay people could be used to some advantage 'knock it off or we will force your kids to like show tunes'

Posted on December 14, 2004 2:17 PM

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Alex Stapleton added:

Not that I live in the US, but isn't the phrase "Liberal bias in the media" totally laughable? Are these guys all Neo-nazis or something? I doubt even Bush would think that the media was Liberally biased.

Posted on December 15, 2004 1:45 AM

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