[IP] FCC Fear Cancels PBS Airing
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From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: September 26, 2006 9:37:00 AM EDT
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Subject: [Dewayne-Net] FCC Fear Cancels PBS Airing
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[Note: I watched this documentary myself last night. We've entered
a new state of fear in this country when people actually have to
worry about this sort of thing for this type of content. DLH]
FCC FEAR CANCELS PBS AIRING
[SOURCE: Denver Post, AUTHOR: Dick Kreck]
Fear of fines from the Federal Communications Commission caused
Rocky Mountain PBS to cancel the showing of the two-hour documentary
"Marie Antoinette." "I took a look at it at 10 this morning," said
James Morgese, president and general manager of RMPBS. "What I saw is
nothing worse than what you see on TV elsewhere, but in this era of
heightened sensitivity by the FCC, fines are pretty stiff."
Specifically, he said, the questionable scenes were 200-year-old
pencil drawings of nude couples having sex and "a very specific"
discussion of Louis VXI's apparent impotency.
<http://www.denverpost.com/kreck/ci_4394264>
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