CBS On Indecency Enforcement: FCC Trying To Rewrite History

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Source: John Eggerton, Broadcasting & Cable

CBS and the FCC took aim at each other's arguments in filings to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in advance of new oral argument this month in the Janet Jackson/Justin Timberlake Super Bowl reveal case.

In its filing, CBS had a few choice, if un-profane, words for the FCC, saying it was attempting to "rewrite history" with a "revisionist spin" on its fleeting indecency policy in arguments CBS said included "false claims" and "incomplete and misleading" discussion.

The FCC, though somewhat more circumspect in its word choice, called CBS' arguments "untenable" and accused it of "leaps of illogic."

Nothing in the Supreme Court's decision upholding the FCC's defense of its fleeting profanity policy changes the Third Circuit's decision in the Super Bowl case that the commission had abandoned a three-decades-old policy on fleeting words and images.


Read more: http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/449056-CBS_On_Indecency_Enforcement_FCC_Trying_To_Rewrite_History.php?rssid=20065

[county worker]

1. All this over a boob! We have our priorities I guess.

[daleanime]

2. How many years ago was this?

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[Mithreal]

3. And nary a peep over airport TSA print-a-porn.