The justices said today they will review appeals court rulings that threw out the FCC’s rules against the isolated use of expletives as well as fines against broadcasters who showed a woman’s nude buttocks on a 2003 episode of ABC’s NYPD Blue.
The art of the deleted expletive has gone mainstream, with even such primetime fare as American Idol joining a trend toward slyly censored cursing. What the [bleep] are the networks thinking?
In an amicus brief with the Supreme Court, the watchdog group Parents Television Council says “the TV networks will not halt their crusade for the ‘right’ to air f-words and graphic nudity in front of children. Without Supreme Court intervention, the FCC stands to lose all Congressionally-mandated authority over indecent broadcast television and radio content.”
The Obama administration is seeking the Supreme Court’s review of appeals court rulings that threw out the FCC’s rules against the isolated use of expletives as well as fines against broadcasters who showed a woman’s nude buttocks on a 2003 episode of ABC’s NYPD Blue.
