Buffy cleared of "indecency"

[Vanhalen 0]

Does the PTC not have a life?

 

Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Will and Grace have been cleared over indecency complaints made to US TV watchdog, the Federal Communications Commission.

The complaints made by the Parent TV Council and the Americans for Decency group were rejected because the shows did not violate FCC indecency rules.

 

Characters Buffy and Spike were shown having sex in a 2001 episode.

 

But the FCC said there was "little evidence that the activity depicted was dwelled upon".

 

The Commission concluded that the Buffy episode was not sufficiently explicit or graphic to be indecent and that the sex was not used "to pander, titillate or shock the audience".

 

Indecency crackdown

 

The PTC made the complaint about the Buffy episode, while Americans for Decency took issue with a Will and Grace episode which aired in March last year.

 

The complaint related to a scene where two women simulated having sex, but the FCC found the scene was not "patently offensive" under its indecency regulations.

 

As in the Buffy case, the Commission also concluded that the activity depicted was not "dwelled upon, or used to pander, titillate or shock the audience".

 

The US Senate recently backed increased fines for airing indecent material.

 

Under the new measures, the maximum fine would increase to as much as $275,000 (£151,000) for each indecent incident.

 

The fines would keep increasing per incident until a maximum fine of $3m (£1,649,440) a day was reached.

 

The issue of indecency on US radio and television has been a major talking point since pop star Janet Jackson exposed her breast on live TV during the Superbowl transmission in February.

 

The incident generated more than 500,000 complaints to the Federal Complaints Commission (FCC).

[LaParkaYourCar 0]

Which Buffy/Spike sex scene was it? There were a bunch that season.

[Guest Smell the ratings!!!]

plus it was like 3 years ago. Don't they have anything more current?

[Guest Fook]

You'd think they'd be more upset over the lesbian scene in season 7.

[Art Sandusky 0]

This thread will go 30 pages.

[Hank Kingsley 0]

This thread needs more Molestomp.

[Mole 0]

Mole what?

[LaParkaYourCar 0]

plus it was like 3 years ago. Don't they have anything more current?

This is the PTC we're talking about. They're not the brightest people around.

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

*Sigh*

 

On one hand I like a number of things that Brent Bozell has to say, but then there are times like this...

[Ravenbomb 0]

Why can't any of these people ever attack Will and Grace for just being a shitty TV show?

[MrRant 0]

*Sigh*

 

On one hand I like a number of things that Brent Bozell has to say, but then there are times like this...

What does he say?

[Mole 0]

I wrote a paper for my English 212 class connecting Bozell and McCarthyism.

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

*Sigh*

 

On one hand I like a number of things that Brent Bozell has to say, but then there are times like this...

What does he say?

I check out the Media Research Center from time to time. There's some gems regarding media bias. For example, They did this search and discovered that some "Man-on-the-street" interviews that Big Media has done before were with people that were Democrat operatives that were previously interviewed by the same networks in other instances. Another example he mentions in a book is how Big Media called this wacko that sued the Clinton's "Conservative" but when this same guy sued Dick Cheney to give up the names of that secret energy task force he was called a "Watchdog Group."

 

I could say a few other things, but I like to keep the conspiracy stuff limited to the CE folder...

[MrRant 0]

Well start a new thread then. This interests me.

 

Not the Buffy shit though.

[Tawren 0]

You'd think they would bitch about Buffy's season 4 Where the Wild Things Are. If any Buffy ep was based around sex just for sex, it was that piece of shit.

[Mole 0]

Bozell can eat my ass, I can't stand him.

[Guest netslob]

y'know, while all these parents are out dealing with this shit, their kids are out smoking crack, and fucking one another. but that possible can't be the parent's fault, it's VINCE MCMAHON'S or JOSS WHEDON'S!!!

[Mole 0]

And what REALLY annoys me is that the PTC wants to target The Shield and Nip/Tuck. However they are on at 10 during a school night on cable TV. Either a kid shouldn't be up that late or shouldn't be watching it, because they already have the rating system.

[Anakin Flair 0]

The scene in question was in "Smashed", where Spike discovers that he can hurt Buffy, so they fight in an abandond house. the fight turns to sex midway and the house collapses around them.

 

Ant Bozell, needs to get over it. It was 3 years ago.