FCC needs to face reality over broadcast 'indecency'

April 03, 2008 For those who missed it last week, here is Fox's response to the FCC's latest demand for an indecency fine: Fox will not be paying. ... Offended, dismissive and superior; an attempt to steal the moral high ground from a government committee that's supposed to own that landscape. Reading the network's flag-waving quote, one almost forgets that the fined images (from a short-lived 2003 reality show titled "Married by America") showed contestants cavorting with strippers wearing nothing but whipped-cream bikinis.

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