FCC Chairman calls for investigation, calls halftime show "Classless, Crass, Deplorable Stunt"

FCC ^ | 2/2/04 | FCC

[HamiltonJay]

http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-243435A1.pdf

[HamiltonJay]

I Hope the FCC will get serious about enforcing decency on the public airwaves and start fining these perverts and those that harbor them.

[HamiltonJay]

Link to FCC press release

[GeronL]

"but...but..we did it as an adjective. Not a verb...."

Viacom needs sued,

[Petronski]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NEWS MEDIA CONTACT
February 2, 2004 David Fiske 202-418-0513
FCC CHAIRMAN POWELL CALLS SUPER BOWL HALFTIME SHOW A
“CLASSLESS, CRASS, DEPLORABLE STUNT.” OPENS INVESTIGATION
FCC Chairman Michael Powell today issued the following statement:
“I am outraged at what I saw during the halftime show of the Super Bowl. Like millions
of Americans, my family and I gathered around the television for a celebration. Instead, that
celebration was tainted by a classless, crass and deplorable stunt. Our nation’s children, parents
and citizens deserve better.
“I have instructed the Commission to open an immediate investigation into last night’s
broadcast. Our investigation will be thorough and swift.”

[My2Cents]

Penalize CBS 10% of whatever its ads income was for the halftime.

[Lexington Green]

Talk is cheap. Let's see if the FCC will act. CBS should have its broadcast license revoked.

[NorseWood]

CBS should be fined multi-millions. They should have control over the product that they are broadcasting world-wide. CBS can pass the fines down to MTV and its "entertainers."

[Johnny_Cipher]

Penalize CBS 10% of whatever its ads income was for the halftime.

And another 10 percent for the clumsy and ridiculous lie about it not being planned.

[Miss Marple]

I liked the e-mail that Fox received this morning, suggesting a class action lawsuit against CBS, Viacom, and MTV. HA!

I am glad to see the FCC is not ignoring this. I will be happy to see CBS sweat.

[PaulaB]

I agree.....I'm sick of not being able to even watch football with my 12 and 9 year old without something sexual "popping out" ..thats what happens when you let MTV productions put something together. MTV channel is nothing but soft porn anyway. CBS and the NFL should have known better

[Austin Willard Wright]

Be careful. If you empower the FCC, it will use that power to help a democratic administration impose "balance" in the media in a few years and you won't have a single leg to stand on in terms of principle. Jackson should be denounced, as should CBS and the NFL, but once we go down the federal censorship road, conservatives will end up being the main victims.

[laconic]

The unfortunate thing, Lexington, is that the "denials" of foreknowledge of this degrading spectacle by CBS and the NFL are probably false, and "plausible denials". I had read in the Wall Street Journal Friday that the NFL had suffered a serious ratings decline among the 18-34 young male demographic, which is of prime importance to advertisers and advertising revenue. Sadly, this tawdry event was geared to what advertisers think young men will watch and appreciate. They can't tell me they didn't preview what was going to be shown before 80 million people at their showcase event for both the NFL, CBS and the advertisers.

[G.Mason]

"I Hope the FCC will get serious about enforcing decency on the public airwaves and start fining these perverts and those that harbor them."

Probably a total waste of time and money.

Money grabbing lawyers are in the wings, waiting to take any "decency" ruling to SCOTUS, as a violation of "free speech".

I don't care what the courts ruled "Bubba the Sponge", you say that again and I'll knock your teeth out

[NorseWood]

The corporate advertisers should demand a refund from CBS of their advertising dollars. They were mislead and not told that they were sponsoring a sleezy, slutty half-time show.

[TBall]

Absolutely!

[camle]

if it was planned, and approved, then apoligize so we can move on, it it wasn't, then timberlake should be investigated by the da's office for sexual battery and, if he did, then he should be arrested. and if he has to go on Megan's list, then too bad.

[Viva Le Dissention]

I'm sorry, I think ya'll need to be re-directed to the Statist BBS system.

What are you thinking?! Golly! Where do the conservatives turn when the "conservatives" are no longer conservative?

The FCC is the most Statist, outrageous, most blatantly collectivist crap ever created by the federal government, and ya'll just buy it, hook, line, and sinker.

CBS ought to own its airwaves. It ought to be able to broadcast whatever it chooses. Not only should CBS not be controlled by the government the types of programming content it puts over its airwaves, any rational-thinking small government conservative ought to believe that the FCC needs to be immediately and forever disbanded.

[Lokibob]

 

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1067195/posts

"Also on Tuesday, the FCC levied a rare indecency fine against a television station, assessing a $27,500 penalty to San Francisco's KRON for allowing a performer to briefly expose himself in a segment on the "Puppetry of the Penis" stage show. "

My suggestion, a $27,500  fine for each station in the CBS lineup.  They were the ones that broadcast the boob, they should pay.

 

[McGavin999]

What did anyone expect? Viacom and CBS are classless, crass and deplorable. People like that don't even know they have no taste. Their minds are in the gutter all the time so they think the rest of the country is right down there with them.

Don't bother to write to CBS to protest, write to the NFL and the various teams and inform them that you won't be watching future games because they have allowed themselves to be drug down to the level of the Viacom and CBS executives. You can't afford to expose your children to that kind of thing. When their multi-million dollar paychecks start to disappear maybe they'll figure it out.

[angkor]

that celebration was tainted by a classless, crass and deplorable stunt.

No, it wasn't "a" classless, crass and deplorable stunt. It was 25 minutes of unabated classless, crass and deplorable stunts.

GWB was watching at the WH with Don Evans (and family) and someone else from the administration. I'd guess they were as repulsed by the halftime show - all 25 minutes of it, start to finish - as anyone else.