The FCC should modify its indecency rules to...
The FCC should modify its indecency rules to comply with Supreme Court rulings in Fox II, National Religious Broadcasters told Commissioner Ajit Pai’s staff in a meeting Thursday, said an ex parte filing released Friday (http://bit.ly/13UPbmR). To prevent future First…
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Amendment challenges to its indecency policy, the commission should create “two narrow, very limited exceptions” to its indecency standards -- one exception allowing content that would normally be deemed indecent if it is part of a serious news program, and another that would allow such content as part of a program with “serious value,” the ex parte said. The exceptions concept is the same that was outlined in NRB’s public comments filed during the comment period on the commission’s indecency policy in June (CD June 20 p7). The commission should also allow on-air fundraising at noncommercial educational stations for third-party nonprofits, NRB said. Allowing the fundraising would “serve a vital public interest not only by facilitation of the charitable impulses of listeners and viewers, but also by aiding non-profit groups in meeting critical community needs,” said NRB.