[BC] News from the FCC

[Rich Wood]

------ At 11:02 AM 11/8/2005, WFIFeng at aol.com wrote: -------

>Links to the Form 475B  are already active on the FCC Homepage from any
>number of Consumer and Complaint  headings on that page.  Together 
>with the webpage
>that the FCC announced  last month, outlining for the public the elements of
>obscene and indecent  speech, this action makes clear the FCC's continuing
>interest in, and focus on,  broadcast indecency.  Imminent 
>Commission action on a
>multitude of pending  indecency complaints is rumored, as is further
>Congressional action to raise the  penalties for such speech.  Thus, 
>the broadcaster
>should  beware.

Will this form be usable to report religious broadcast indecency? 
With all the scams in religious broadcasting I think our fetish over 
sexuality is misplaced. I suspect that Dobson, Robertson, Swaggart 
and Falwell, et al, have harmed more people than the entire porn 
industry and Howard Stern combined.

I'm of the opinion that consumer fraud is more harmful than the sight 
of naked bodies or dirty words. I guess I'm just old fashioned. I 
expect religious fanatics to be honest. Now I have to determine the 
cash flow value of each religious pronouncement. I know anything Gay 
is the highest biller of all. Reproductive rights comes in a close 
second and political coersion is probably a distant third.

It's a shame that poverty and inequality hardly rings the cash 
register in comparison.

Rich