Looks like the FCC is going to fine ABC and the stations that aired an NYPD Blue episode back in 2003 that (gasp!) showed a woman's bare derrière. Am I to assume they've been working on this investigation for the past five years?
Glad to see my tax dollars going to such an important cause. Health care? Screw that! Budget deficits? So what? Dependence on foreign energy? We can't deal with any of that... we've got a TV network that aired a woman's ass!... for nearly 4 1/2 seconds!... five years ago. Book'em Danno!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080126/...qnq0xwAi4E1vAI
WASHINGTON - The Federal Communications Commission has proposed a $1.4 million fine against 52 ABC Television Network stations over a 2003 broadcast of cop drama NYPD Blue.
The fine is for a scene where a boy surprises a woman as she prepares to take a shower. The scene depicted "multiple, close-up views" of the woman's "nude buttocks" according to an agency order issued late Friday.
ABC is owned by the Walt Disney Co. The fines were issued against 52 stations either owned by or affiliated with the network.
FCC's definition of indecent content requires that the broadcast "depicts or describes sexual or excretory activities" in a "patently offensive way" and is aired between the hours of 6 a.m. and 10 p.m.
The agency said the show was indecent because "it depicts sexual organs and excretory organs — specifically an adult woman's buttocks."
The agency rejected the network's argument that "the buttocks are not a sexual organ."