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By not in system - AOL News(July 14) -- In a big win for television and radio broadcasters, a federal appeals court has deemed the Federal Communication Commission's policing of "patently offensive" language unconstitutionally vague. In the last decade, the FCC and Congress clamped down on broadcasters, issuing fines and penalties following high-profile events such as Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction" and Bono's Golden Globes acceptance speech. The three-panel judge, wrote: "The absence of reliable guidance in the FCC's standards chills a vast amount of protected speech dealing with some of the most important and ...
The Cable News Patrol: Glenn and Rachel Become My New Best Friends
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyAs a small boy half a century ago, I vividly recall accompanying my widowed grandmother to the live TV broadcast of "The Price Is Right." During the warm-up before the show, I cringed with embarrassment as my grandmother (a formidable woman who favored sensible shoes and hairpins) asked the host, Bill Cullen, the kind of personal question normally reserved for close friends and family. Only later did I realize that my grandmother, living alone, had been listening to Cullen for years on the radio -- and thought he was family. After watching cable TV news virtually nonstop as an experiment ...
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