PTC Complains to FCC About Keaton's GMA F-Bomb
Parents Television Council Urges Members to File FCC Complaints About Diane Keaton's Use of F-Word on ABC's Good Morning America
By John Eggerton -- Broadcasting & Cable, 1/16/2008 6:19:00 AM
Look for Parents Television Council members to file indecency complaints at the Federal Communications Commission over Diane Keaton's unbleeped F-word on Good Morning America Tuesday.
PTC complaints have helped to generate proposed FCC fines in the millions of dollars (for an episode of CBS’ Without a Trace), generated court cases (Janet Jackson; the profanity-decision challenges) and consent decrees (CBS' recent settlement over the KUTV Salt Lake City license challenge). The group called on members to file the complaints, saying that there was "no excuse" for the F-word to "crop up" in news shows "in front of millions of parents, families and children."
In an interview with GMA’s Diane Sawyer, Keaton said she wished she had lips as attractive as Sawyer's, adding, “Then I wouldn’t have worked on my fucking personality.” Keaton immediately apologized and Sawyer joked that Keaton’s mother was going to wash her mouth out with soap.
FCC chairman Kevin Martin said Tuesday that he had not seen any complaints about the broadcast, but he conceded that current litigation on the FCC's indecency-enforcement regime has impacted a "host of issues."
News programs are not exempt from indecency fines, but there is a higher hurdle for such programming.
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Hey Larry, how are you enjoying those other networks now? It seems like Diane Keaton & Jane Fonda are following you...
Trevor Mission - 2/14/2008 12:24:00 PM EST -
You know, sometimes parents like to have the news playing in the morning and listen while they get their families ready for the day. I guess we aren't able to do that anymore. That's too bad.
Laura Wilson - 1/17/2008 11:31:00 AM EST -
You know, sometimes parents like to have the news playing in the morning and listen while they get their families ready for the day. I guess we aren't able to do that anymore. That's too bad.
Laura Wilson - 1/17/2008 11:31:00 AM EST -
Dianne it isn't your thin lips, it is your foul mouth to blame for being single. The f-word is the most displeasing word ever to come from one's mouth!
James Hammock - 1/17/2008 11:05:00 AM EST -
I'm actually surprised the show wasn't on a delay and it wasn't dumped. I thought every live program was on a delay these days because of the crazy public groups who prey on on-air accidents such as this. Usually any live radio interview is on a delay just in case. Perhaps the people behind these morning shows are a little too relaxed?
matt headley - 1/17/2008 10:56:00 AM EST
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