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.”
PTC Urges FCC To Appeal Profanity Case
The Parents Television Council released new poll results that show 75% of Americans agree there is too much sex, violence and coarse language on television. A majority also supports the FCC’s legal authority to fine broadcasters if they air indecent material.
The group is urging members to sign a petition protesting the title of the pilot which it says is “an affront to women” and “attacks the world’s largest faith.”
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The Parents Television Council is urging members to contact their state attorneys general, urging them to investigate whether local cable and satellite providers violated child pornography laws by distributing the MTV show.
Two days after the watchdog group the Parents Television Council called for a boycott of Taco Bell for advertising during MTV’s teen show Skins, the fast food comapny has decided to pull its ads.
Primetime TV shows that appeal to teenagers are promoting the “sexualization” of girls at an alarming rate, including more portrayals of underage females being objectified than adults, especially for laughs, according to the Parents Television Council.
The watchdog group asks holiday shoppers to support family-friendly advertisers. Among the best are Smucker’s, Kraft and Coke. The worst are led by
Socially conservative media advocacy just isn’t as easy pull off as it was several years ago, when the FCC was imposing huge indecency-related fines on CBS and News Corp. The Parents Television Council, which was influential a few years back when the FCC was handing out those big fines, also has rival conservative advocacy groups to deal with. That includes TV Watch, a libertarian watchdog.
The watchdog group says a comparison of the first two weeks of the 2010 fall season’s prime-time programming on the broadcast networks with a comparable period in 2005 shows a significant increase in both the number of instances of use of profanity, and the harshness of the profanity used.
