The FCC’s inquiry into indecency rules is limited...
The FCC’s inquiry into indecency rules is limited and doesn’t propose to allow swearing or nudity on broadcast television, a Wilkinson Barker attorney said. The commission seeks comments on its policy on fleeting expletives, “those times, usually in live broadcast,…
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where a single profane word or phrase slips out onto the airwaves,” media attorney David Oxenford said on the law firm’s blog (http://bit.ly/13yaNCY). While other issues may arise, “they arise in this context of dealing with these fleeting incidents, not as part of an attempt to turn broadcast TV into some X-rated video service,” he said. These issues are being tackled because the FCC has to clarify the rules after the Supreme Court found that it hadn’t “adequately justified the more aggressive posture that it took on indecency in the last decade,” he said. Comments in docket 13-86 are due June 19, with replies due July 18, the FCC said in a Federal Register notice (http://1.usa.gov/12gfPG4).