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U.S. Senate Backs Ten Fold Hike in Indecency Fines By Jeremy Pelofsky Reuters May 18, 2006 WASHINGTON, May 18 (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate late on Thursday approved boosting fines tenfold to $325,000 on television and radio broadcast stations that violate rules on airing profanity or sexually explicit material. The measure had languished for almost 16 months, drawing criticism from family groups and conservatives including Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, a likely 2008 contender for the Republican presidential nomination. Lawmakers demanded higher fines on broadcasters after pop singer Janet Jackson briefly exposed her breast during the 2004 Super Bowl football...

Profile: Indecency Warrior's Campaign Peaking- Brent Bozell's Push May Spur Legislation By Doug Halonen Television Week May 15, 2006 If federal lawmakers, as widely anticipated, soon move to approve legislation that cracks down on indecent television programming, the multibillion-dollar media industry will have to concede defeat largely to one man: L. Brent Bozell III. Mr. Bozell, 50, is president and founder of the watchdog Parents Television Council, the group widely credited for spurring the Federal Communications Commission to hand down millions of dollars of indecency fines to broadcasters over the past couple of years. The PTC is leading the lobbying...

More Government Control Over Television Endangers Conservatives -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By Tom Readmond May 10, 2006 Imagine yourself transported into the near future: say, the year 2011. A few well-organized liberal crusaders, incensed by the reduced influence of the liberal media and the emergence of Fox News and Rush Limbaugh, successfully lobby a Democratic president’s FCC to harass conservative political shows off the airwaves by levying fines against them for using “inappropriate” language and harboring “adversarial” opinions. Limbaugh finds himself dropped by broadcasters slapped with federal fines for his “indecent” commentary and Fox News is continually battling a hostile FCC. If this...

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Choosing What’s on TV: Should Big Brother Hold the Remote? By Jim Dyke The National Ledger May 3, 2006 There was a time, the rumor went, when mothers, fathers and children argued nightly over who got to hold the remote. But in 2006, what was once a domestic battle had been taken outside the walls of American living rooms. Where it went, did not matter; all that mattered was that someone else was watching, and deciding. In this Orwellian reality, a small, but influential, contingent thinks the government should police what’s on your TV. This group, which includes the Parents...

Indecency bill on faster track- Frist pressing for House version By Brooks Boliek Reuters/The Hollywood Reporter May 3, 2006 WASHINGTON -- Responding to pressure from fundamentalist organizations, Sen. Bill Frist, R-Tenn., is attempting to jump-start legislation that would impose a tenfold increase on fines for indecent broadcasts, congressional and industry sources said. Frist is running a "hotline" on the version of the bill that won approval in the House last year. Hotlining is a procedure that allows the Senate to pass bills that are not expected to be controversial. Once a bill is hotlined, any senator with an objection to...

MADISON - A 44-year-old Huntsville man was jailed on Friday for allegedly exposing himself to children riding on a Madison school bus last month. Thomas Erich Durham, of 1408 Wind River Drive in Huntsville, was charged with seven counts of indecent exposure, Madison police Lt. Tim Albright said. Durham had already been charged by Athens and Huntsville police for similar incidents of indecent exposure at shopping centers last month. Albright said Madison investigators interviewed several witnesses to identify Durham as the man who allegedly exposed himself to several children as they traveled home from school on a school bus on...

Wis. Law Already Protects Mothers. MADISON, Wis. -- Asking a breast-feeding mother to cover-up could soon cost people in Wisconsin $200. A proposed bill by state Sen. Fred Risser would protect mothers who breast-feed in public from being harassed. Under Wisconsin law it is perfectly legal for a woman to breast-feed her child in a public place. But while the state law may be behind the mother, the public isn't always behind the law, Madison television station WISC reported. Michelle Morgan said she has run into problems trying to breast-feed her son, Ian, in public. "A woman basically said to...

BREASTFEEDING, backed for the health effects it bestows on the baby, also appears to reduce the mother's risk of developing adult onset diabetes, researchers said today. The protective effect probably comes from the way breast feeding uses up energy and keeps blood sugar levels stabilised, said the report from Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston. A look at women 15 years after they had their last baby "found that each year a woman breast feeds reduced her risk of diabetes by 15 per cent", said Alison Stuebe, a physician who led the study. The finding was...

A nursing mother was separated from her baby, handcuffed, and abruptly taken to jail and now, the state patrol and the Lakewood Police Department are investigating. The mother told 7NEWS' John Ferrugia that she was terrified and humiliated by police mistakes. It all began when the woman and her husband were pulled over during a routine traffic stop. "I doubled up kids in the back seat in belts. So they were restrained, but not properly. But ... it was my fault for not having them in there properly," said father Ricky Archuleta. Ricky expected a ticket but was surprised when...

Long Island attorney has been charged with being an oline sexual predator. Nassau District Attorney Denis Dillon says 46-year-old Thomas Sheehan of East Setauket is accused of having explicit sexual conversations with a person he believed to be a 14-year-old girl. Dillon says Sheehan is an attorney with an office in Jackson Heights, Queens. DA Dillon says Sheehan visited a chatroom where he began a conversation with an udnercover officer posing as a teen-age girl. Sheehan allegedly talked about meeting the girl for sexual activity. Dillon says at the same time Nassau officers were zeroing in Sheehan -- New York...

As presidential adviser Karl Rove has been under fire for his role in the alleged outing of a CIA employee, a liberal blog is now suggesting people leave a special care package on Rove's lawn -- the gift of excrement. "If you just happen to be passing through, do the considerate thing and bring a small gift. We suggest a special bouquet for our esteemed latter-day Wormtongue," says A Liberal Dose. It then shows a photo of a suggested donation, followed by the observation, "Now wouldn't it be so nice to see Herr Rove's lawn carpeted with such lovely lawn...

Protester on indecent exposure charge arrives at court naked 17.02.05 1.00pm An environmental protester charged with indecent exposure arrived for his appearance at Auckland District Court today naked. Simon Oosterman, 24, a computer technician, was charged during the Auckland Naked Bike Ride last Sunday, an event he organised to protest against society's dependence on the car. After Oosterman was stopped by police, the rest of the riders covered up the lower parts of their bodies to avoid arrest. Today, Oosterman and three supporters, two males and a female, stood outside the couthouse naked and bearing a banner that read: "Stop...

"Indecent Exposure" John Kerry political cartoon.  June 9, 2004... Kerry photo-ops Reagan casket Presumptive Democrat presidential nominee John Kerry showed up at the Reagan Library on Tuesday afternoon to view the deceased former president’s casket, setting off a firestorm of reaction. ·        At issue: The need for a Kerry visit to the Reagan Library in California. As reported by Rush Limbaugh, a Kerry spokesperson had already announced Kerry would attend the State Funeral for Reagan on Friday in Washington, D.C.·        At issue: The photographer accompanying Kerry into the Reagan Library. Clear guidelines (handed out to everyone prior to entering...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Communications Commission said on Friday that Clear Channel Communications Inc. should pay the maximum penalty of nearly $250,000 for airing a sexually explicit radio broadcast. Clear Channel, the nation's largest radio-station owner, should pay $247,500 -- the maximum indecency fine allowable by law -- for an episode of "Elliot in the Morning" that aired on stations in Washington, D.C., Virginia and Delaware, the FCC said. A Clear Channel official said the company would investigate the situation. "If we made a mistake, we'll certainly live with the consequences," said Andrew Levin, Clear Channel executive vice president...

Janet Apologizes, Says Super Bowl Stunt Went Too FarOne day after Janet Jackson's shocking Super Bowl halftime performance, the singer took responsibility for the breast-baring incident and said she never intended the stunt to go as far as it did. "The decision to have a costume reveal at the end of my halftime show performance was made after final rehearsals," Jackson said in a statement released Monday (February 2). "MTV was completely unaware of it. It was not my intention that it go as far as it did. I apologize to anyone offended — including the audience, MTV, CBS and...

AFA Activism Action Alert - 9/25/2003 Target store chain void of common decency The Target corporation subsidiary, Marshall Field's, is actively campaigning for your children to purchase a new teen fragrance with a disgusting insinuation. - Don Wildmon 9/25/2003 Would you believe Target has approved its Marshall Field's stores to sell a product called FCUK? Target must consider parents really naive to not know exactly what type of message they are "targeting" to our kids. Here's how one mother put it: I didn't see this on television but it was an advertisement insert in last Sunday's newspaper for Marshall Field's...

EVANSVILLE, Indiana, Oct 28, 2002 (AP WorldStream via COMTEX) -- A French woman who became angry while being scanned with a hand-held metal detector at the Evansville Regional Airport was arrested Monday after she removed her shirt and bra in the terminal, police said. Eliane Yvonne Marcelle Aguillaume, 56, of Paris was charged with disorderly conduct in an airport, resisting arrest and indecent exposure. Aguillaume became angry when a female airport screener started to scan the area of her bra, police said. Aguillaume kept reaching inside her sweater, so the scanner had to search the area again. Aguillaume then took...

Opie and Athony have been cancelled. IT was such a great show. WNEW pulled the plug perm. on them today says FOX News.