Perhaps the dummest thing I've ever seen

[MightyFighting]

http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Olympics-indecency-probe/2004/12/12/1102786931195.html


All I can say is: Bloody religious fanatics.

 

[CharlieG]

Yawn.

All things like that do is make the US not only aggressive and corporatist, but authoritarian as well. We know what that adds up to, don't we?

 

[Freo Big Fella]

I'm amazed, wonder if they find Genisis offensive?

 

[lenny&carl]

well Phil Collins is quite the ********.

 

[- PC -]

So a penis and a pregnant woman is offensive and The Bachelor isnt?

I wonder why it has taken 4 months for a complaint to be made? Is it a new organisation looking for publicity?

 

[- PC -]

http://www.parentstv.org/

Here is their site ..where you can watch offensive clips from shows they find offensive.!!

''PTC Calls for Congressional Investigation of FCC
"We are calling for a Congressional investigation of the FCC over its accounting practices. While we're pleased that the FCC has calculated that PTC members have filed an overwhelming majority of indecency complaints in the last two years, the FCC's count is utterly deceptive," said L. Brent Bozell, president of the PTC.

“The FCC needs to count each and every complaint, regardless if the majority complaining are PTC members. When one million people come together under one roof to voice their concerns, it's not one person complaining, it's one million people complaining.''

No they are called sheep


''Ever since exit-pollsters discovered a significant chunk of voters were casting their ballots based on which candidate stood for moral values - and most of those who chose that reason for their vote said they picked Republicans - the Hollywood crowd has tried to pick the idea apart, as conflicted, even ridiculous.

The anything-goes gang is suggesting we live in a pretty hypocritical country if we can profess our desire for moral leadership and make our number-one smash on television the ABC smut soap “Desperate Housewives.” When the red states profess a great concern for moral values and then embrace sleazy shows, that’s hypocrisy, is it not? ''''


Very hypocritical

 

[WA ROO]

I remember something about these morons.A couple of years ago they tried to have the WWE taken off air,When that didn't work thet tried to influence advertisers to stop advertising during the wrestling.
At the time I went to the site and saw lists of 'good' and 'bad' shows
No1 on the 'bad' list was Buffy The Vampire Slayer
No2 on the 'good' list was Sabrina The Teenage Witch
Would have thought a show about witches would not be on a good list of an organization that expouses so called christian values.
Btw do a search on L Brent Bozell very scary
Also one of the biggest sponsors of the PTC are the Moonies

 

[Freo Big Fella]

I remember something about these morons.A couple of years ago they tried to have the WWE taken off air,When that didn't work thet tried to influence advertisers to stop advertising during the wrestling.
At the time I went to the site and saw lists of 'good' and 'bad' shows
No1 on the 'bad' list was Buffy The Vampire Slayer
No2 on the 'good' list was Sabrina The Teenage Witch
Would have thought a show about witches would not be on a good list of an organization that expouses so called christian values.
Btw do a search on L Brent Bozell very scary
Also one of the biggest sponsors of the PTC are the Moonies

There's a great section at the end of Mick Foley's second book where he completely rips all of their arguments apart, highlights their connection to the Moonies, highlights Bozells links to Paramilitary Evangilists who bomb abortion clinics in the US and the cluelessness and Hypocracy of people like Billy Graham, Steve Allen and Joe Leibermann who have all acted as their spokespeople. All with exemplary research and references as well.

 

[WA ROO]

There's a great section at the end of Mick Foley's second book where he completely rips all of their arguments apart, highlights their connection to the Moonies, highlights Bozells links to Paramilitary Evangilists who bomb abortion clinics in the US and the cluelessness and Hypocracy of people like Billy Graham, Steve Allen and Joe Leibermann who have all acted as their spokespeople. All with exemplary research and references as well.

Yep read that but it doesn't mention that when sued by the WWE for defamation etc Bozell had to pay 3.5mil and make an apology

 

[DaveW]

When I saw the headline and the accompanying photo, I pictured Mrs Flanders and Mrs Lovejoy banging down Marge Simpson's door... you've all seen the episode.

 

[Tim56]

http://www.mediaweek.com/mediaweek/headlines/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000731656

Here is the article referred to in the story.

Activists Dominate Content Complaints
December 06, 2004
By Todd Shields

In an appearance before Congress in February, when the controversy over Janet Jackson’s Super Bowl moment was at its height, Federal Communications Commission chairman Michael Powell laid some startling statistics on U.S. senators.

The number of indecency complaints had soared dramatically to more than 240,000 in the previous year, Powell said. The figure was up from roughly 14,000 in 2002, and from fewer than 350 in each of the two previous years. There was, Powell said, “a dramatic rise in public concern and outrage about what is being broadcast into their homes.”


What Powell did not reveal—apparently because he was unaware—was the source of the complaints. According to a new FCC estimate obtained by Mediaweek, nearly all indecency complaints in 2003—99.8 percent—were filed by the Parents Television Council, an activist group.

This year, the trend has continued, and perhaps intensified.

Through early October, 99.9 percent of indecency complaints—aside from those concerning the Janet Jackson “wardrobe malfunction” during the Super Bowl halftime show broadcast on CBS— were brought by the PTC, according to the FCC analysis dated Oct. 1. (The agency last week estimated it had received 1,068,767 complaints about broadcast indecency so far this year; the Super Bowl broadcast accounted for over 540,000, according to commissioners’ statements.)

The prominent role played by the PTC has raised concerns among critics of the FCC’s crackdown on indecency. “It means that really a tiny minority with a very focused political agenda is trying to censor American television and radio,” said Jonathan Rintels, president and executive director of the Center for Creative Voices in Media, an artists’ advocacy group.

PTC officials disagree.

“I wish we had that much power,” said Lara Mahaney, spokeswoman for the Los Angeles-based group. Mahaney said the issue should not be the source of complaints, but whether programming violates federal law prohibiting the broadcast of indecent matter when children are likely to be watching. “Why does it matter how the complaints come?” Mahaney said. “If the networks haven’t done anything illegal, if they haven’t done anything indecent, why do they care what we say?”

Powell, who said during the National Association of Broadcasters convention in Las Vegas in April that he was unsure how many complaints come from organized groups, addressed the question in an op-ed piece in The New York Times last Friday.

“Advocacy groups do generate many complaints, as our critics note, but that’s not unusual in today’s Internet world…that fact does not minimize the merits of the groups’ concerns,” Powell wrote.

Powell’s fellow Republican commissioner, Kathleen Abernathy, last week said that the agency does not let the number or the sources of complaints determine its indecency findings. “As long as you’re following precedents and the law, it shouldn’t matter,” Abernathy told Mediaweek.

At issue is a process that once relied upon aggrieved listeners and viewers contacting the FCC, but that increasingly is driven by organized groups with a focus on programming content. The FCC does not monitor programming for fear of assuming a role as national censor; it relies on complaints to initiate its indecency proceedings.

So far this year, the system has resulted in millions of dollars in settlements and proposed fines against broadcasters.

In such a system, even the number of complaints becomes an object of contention. For example, the agency on Oct. 12, in proposing fines of nearly $1.2 million against Fox Broadcasting and its affiliates, said it received 159 complaints against Married by America, which featured strippers partly obscured by pixilation.

But when asked, the FCC’s Enforcement Bureau said it could find only 90 complaints from 23 individuals. (The smaller total was first reported by Internet-based TV writer Jeff Jarvis; Mediaweek independently obtained the Enforcement Bureau’s calculation.)

And Fox, in a filing last Friday, told the FCC that it should rescind the proposed fines, in part because the low number of complaints fell far short of indicating that community standards had been violated.

“All but four of the complaints were identical…and only one complainant professed even to have watched the program,” Fox said. It said the network and its stations had received 34 comments, “a miniscule total for a show that had a national audience of 5.1 million households.”

Even as some question whether the FCC should let the views of 23 people lead to fines, others take the agency to task for routinely failing to account for many of the complaints it receives. “Over 4,000 people filed a complaint against Married by America. Where do the complaints go?” asked the PTC’s Mahaney.

The PTC has worked hard to achieve its influence over broadcast content. Founded in 1995 by longtime conservative activist L. Brent Bozell III, it set out to make an impact in 2003, including what it called “a massive, coordinated and determined campaign” for more action by the FCC against broadcast indecency. “We delivered on that promise,” Bozell said in the group’s annual report.

The document listed tools developed by the PTC, including continual monitoring and archiving of broadcast network programs and “cutting-edge technology to make it easier for members to contact program sponsors, the FCC, or the networks directly with a simple click of the button.”

The result, the group said, was “a more than 2,400 percent increase in online activism.”

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Those people bring shame on the name Conservative.

 

[WA ROO]

Go to the PTC website they have links to the FCC with the names of shows they are targeting
Also you can check which shows are 'approved' all my favorite shows are bad shows
CSI
The West Wing
Angel
Buffy
Scrubs
all bad shows

 

[DaveW]

Whats the problem with the West Wing? Oh right, a Democrat is in the White House.

 

[agitator]

Whats the problem with the West Wing? Oh right, a Democrat is in the White House.

not anymore.

 

[Kingpin]

That is without question the stupidest website I have ever looked at.
Are these buffoons for real?
Whilst reading all the sanctimonious drivel on the PTC website, I felt like I watching a Southpark episode, so rediculous/bizarre was some of the tripe I was reading.

They claim credit for driving Howard Stern off the air this week, haven't these f***ing d*ckheads ever heard of a bloody "On" "Off" switch.

I had a good look at the "Best" programs of the week how boring.
No wonder kids rebel these days.

 

[Qsaint]

The religious right is trying to censor A new version of the Merchant of venice , made entirely in Venice, staring AL Pachino. They want to cut all the scenes with racy wallpaper taken out. This confused the producers as thier is no wall paper in the film. Then it dawned on them, the religious right is trying to censor out fresco's that are painted by an italian master, are priceless, and mostly of religious scenes. In other words cupids are offensive.

 

[MightyFighting]

The religious right is trying to censor A new version of the Merchant of venice , made entirely in Venice, staring AL Pachino. They want to cut all the scenes with racy wallpaper taken out. This confused the producers as thier is no wall paper in the film. Then it dawned on them, the religious right is trying to censor out fresco's that are painted by an italian master, are priceless, and mostly of religious scenes. In other words cupids are offensive.

HeHe, "wallpaper".

(Morons)