Parents’ group fights FCC bid to loosen indecency rules (News)

Posted on April 2, 2013, in Indecency, News, Pornography Laws

The Parents Television Council, a media watchdog group, is pushing back against the Federal Communications Commission’s proposal to soften its policy against indecent radio and TV content. Tim Winter, the president of the Parents Television Council, said in a statement late on Monday that the FCC’s announcement is “deeply vexing.” “It unnecessarily weakens a decency [...]

Pornography, Respect, and Responsibility: A Letter to the Hotel Industry (Opinion)

Posted on January 24, 2013, in Indecency, Opinion, Pornography Laws, Societal

By: Robert P. George is McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University. Shaykh Hamza Yusuf is co-founder and a member of the faculty of Zaytuna College. July 9, 2012 See original letter here. We write to ask you to stop offering pornographic movies in your company’s hotels. We make no proposal here to limit your [...]

You Can't Say That on Television: 40 Years of Debating Dirty Words (News)

Posted on June 25, 2012, in Indecency, News, Pornography Laws

Author: John Sanburn Date Published: 06/25/2012 Find Full text here: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2117988-1,00.html When John Douglas tuned in to New York City radio station WBAI on October 30, 1973, he heard these words: s–t, p–s, f–k, c–t, c——–r, mother—–r and t–s. One after the other. “I hadn’t heard those words since I was a kid in the steel [...]

Thumbs up on SCOTUS decency ruling (News)

Posted on June 22, 2012, in Indecency, News, Pornography Laws

Find full original article here: http://www.onenewsnow.com/Legal/Default.aspx?id=1619342 Bill Bumpas and Jody Brown – OneNewsNow – 6/21/2012 Although the Supreme Court today threw out fines and sanctions that the FCC levied against broadcast television networks for allowing curse words and nudity on the air, pro-family groups are interpreting the ruling as the high court siding with families. [...]