The Parents Television Council, Morality in Media and...
The Parents Television Council, Morality in Media and 73 other groups signed a letter to the House and Senate committees that oversee the FCC, asking lawmakers to “protect enforcement of the broadcast indecency law,” said a PTC release on the…
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coalition. The letter (http://bit.ly/10iU5mf) is a response to an April 1 FCC notice requesting comments on the commission’s indecency policy, which targets only “egregious” violations (CD April 2 p1). “In American jurisprudence, the scale of egregiousness for a violation of the law serves to determine the consequence for the violation, it does not define whether the law has been broken,” said PTC President Tim Winter. “If a broadcaster violates the law, then the egregious nature of that violation should help the FCC to determine an appropriate sanction -- period.” In its own release, Morality in Media said the coalition wants members to oppose the nomination of prospective FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler “unless he commits to vigorously enforce decency standards under the current FCC guidelines.” Both groups are urging their members to submit comments on the commission’s indecency policy ahead of the May 20 deadline.