Rockefeller Slams Profanity Decision
By John Eggerton -- Broadcasting & Cable, 6/6/2007 11:18:00 AM
Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-W. Va.) says the federal court's ruling Monday to invalidate the FCC's profanity findings against Fox "sends entirely the wrong message."
Rockfeller has been a critic of media content and plans to introduce a bill expanding the FCC's indecency authority to include violence.
“Overnight, the court called into question nearly thirty years of FCC precedents and regulations aimed at protecting children and families from obscene language and indecent programming during family hours," said Rockefeller in a statement, released two days after the ruling, that echoed concerns by FCC Chairman Kevin Martin in his statement on the decision.
“If the Commission can’t enforce its own longstanding rules, I fear that parents could be held hostage to those who flagrantly disregard the spirit of the family hour and the intent of the TV rating system," said Rockefeller.
“The ruling defies common sense," he said. The court had said that it was the FCC's defense of its profanity policy vis a vis fleeting profanities that defied common sense. "We must be doing more, not less, to give the FCC and parents the resources they need to protect their children from indecent and violent television.”
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Wrong party, wrong state. Rockefeller is a Democrat from West Virginia.
David - 6/6/2007 7:31:00 PM EDT
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