Doesn’t this strike anyone as a bit of an over-reaction? Is Janet Jackson’s bare breast on TV for 2 seconds during a football game REALLY worth this much panic?
And, it is panic.
For years, the F.C.C. plodded along handing out token fines for the most part. Once in-a-while, they zapped a broadcaster with a substantial penalty. But, overall, they took their sweet time considering complaints and generally did little about them.
What exactly is happening here? How could one mammary gland have thrown the entire country into a complete spiral down into the depths of bloated indecency legislation?
It’s legislative pandemonium.
It’s like Congress, the F.C.C., and some large broadcast companies dropped acid, had some weird trip, and along the way found a new heightened-level of moral consciousness.
Don’t they see how transparent this all is?
It’s actually insulting.
All this sudden uproar feels about as genuine as the father who deserts his family and then returns when the kids are almost grown, finally offering to help.
It’s like in a relationship when one suddenly announces to the other: “You’ve changed and I don’t love you anymore.” Chances are the person has not changed at all. Rather, the changes have occurred in the one who wants to leave the relationship.
How can any of the players in this unfolding drama claim they were NOT aware of the current state of Radio, it’s content and the language being used on a regular basis?
On the contrary, everybody knew. Nobody cared. Now, everyone's having a TOTAL FREAK OUT because of a chain-reaction of emotions based on one boobie in the wrong place at the wrong time.
These new proposed fines are not only outrageous, they’re a simplistic answer being offered in haste and in lieu of an intelligent effort to review broadcast law and the current feelings of the public at-large in order to arrive at a new solution which can protect those who need protection without infringing on those who don’t.
