From Salon: Boobs at the FCC

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 16:41:48 -0500
From: John Adams <jadams01 () sprynet com>
Subject: For IP? From Salon: Boobs at the FCC
To: dave () farber net

Hi, Dave,

	You convinced me to subscribe to Salon, and it's paid off many a time. 
Here's an item from one of their columns I seldom read, "The Fix": 
http://www.salon.com/ent/col/fix/2004/02/13/fri/index.html

Has the Federal Communication Commission exaggerated the number of 
complaints -- claimed to be more than 200,000 -- it received over Janet 
Jackson's Super Bowl flash? One Salon reader, Samuel Thompson, wrote in 
Thursday after reading a story about the congressional hearings into 
Tittygate, with his own suggestive evidence that that might be the case:

"I'd just like to point out that I am one of the vocal 200,000 that chose 
to complain to the FCC, but not by choice. I sent the FCC a note supporting 
Ms. Jackson's breast, so to speak, and here is the response I got from [FCC 
commissioner] Michael Copps:

'Thank you so much for your e-mail regarding the Super Bowl halftime show. 
I share your concern about this outrageous stunt. I have been pushing the 
FCC to tackle indecency on the airwaves since I joined the Commission two 
and a half years ago. Because I've received so many e-mails on this issue, 
I am not able to reply to each one individually. For your information, I've 
attached below my comments about the Super Bowl halftime show on February 
2, 2004.

'Thank you again for sending your e-mail.'

As you can see, no one is even reading the mail that's coming in. If they 
see a subject line that relates to the Super Bowl they just chalk it up to 
another outraged citizen. I'd be really curious to know how many of these 
200,000 people were really outraged by the show, as opposed to how many 
were just outraged by the FCC reaction."

-- Kerry Lauerman 

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