FCC Fear Cancels PBS Airing

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com>
Date: September 26, 2006 9:37:00 AM EDT
To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <dewayne-net () warpspeed com>
Subject: [Dewayne-Net] FCC Fear Cancels PBS Airing
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[Note:  I watched this documentary myself last night.  We've entered  
a new state of fear in this country when people actually have to  
worry about this sort of thing for this type of content.  DLH]

FCC FEAR CANCELS PBS AIRING
[SOURCE: Denver Post, AUTHOR: Dick Kreck]

	Fear of fines from the Federal Communications Commission caused  
Rocky Mountain PBS to cancel the showing of the two-hour documentary  
"Marie Antoinette." "I took a look at it at 10 this morning," said  
James Morgese, president and general manager of RMPBS. "What I saw is  
nothing worse than what you see on TV elsewhere, but in this era of  
heightened sensitivity by the FCC, fines are pretty stiff."  
Specifically, he said, the questionable scenes were 200-year-old  
pencil drawings of nude couples having sex and "a very specific"  
discussion of Louis VXI's apparent impotency.

<http://www.denverpost.com/kreck/ci_4394264>


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