Parents Television Council (PTC) is the online wingnut organization infamous for providing online complaint forms redirected to the
Federal
Communication Commission (FCC). They take credit
for the FCC lynching of CBS following the "indecent"
exposure of
Janet Jackson's breast
during the 2004 Superbowl (looked like a very decent breast to me, although that nipple jewelry thingy was way tacky).
However, be it the imminent departure of Mike Powell from the FCC chair post, or the "even a blind squirrel finds a nut now and then" instance, today FCC rejected 36 indecency complaints from PTC.
Details can be found at washingtonpost.com
(free subscription required) or at
newsday.com.
Also some fun stuff below...
From the front page of PTC (straight from the horse's mouth, so to say, emphasis mine):
In three recent indecency rulings, FCC Chairman Michael Powell's Commission has sanctioned the following content during the so-called family hour: a high school teacher refers to one of his students as "a big dick"; criminals hire a prostitute to have sex with a horse; and jokes about pedophilia and Michael Jackson's penis.
According to
Salon.com...
A complaint over "The Simpsons" included a scene in which students carried picket signs with the phrases "What would Jesus glue?" and "Don't cut off my pianissimo."
From
Washington Post...
Yesterday's denials covered 36 instances from a variety of shows, such as the WB's "Gilmore Girls," NBC's "Friends," ABC's "NYPD Blue" and Fox's animated shows, "The Simpsons" and "King of the Hill."
A number of the denials focused on the nickname -- also a slang term for the male sexual organ -- which increasingly is working its way into television scripts.
I wonder if we should submit an indecency complaint every time
[male_sexual_organ] Cheney appears on TV.
I also could not resist quoting the Austin
Powers complaint from the FCC press release...
g. “Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me,”
January 8, 2003, 8 p.m. EST: musical
number during which the title character’s naked torso and genital area are blocked by objects,
furniture, and, in one instance, by his hands. Later scenes include the use of the phrase “fat
bastard,” and the word “testicles.”