BLUR - FOX BITES FCC

If its appeal of an FCC fine is upheld in court, Fox Broadcasting could bring down the regulator's power to enforce indecency regulations. As reported by Broadcasting & Cable, the appeal, filed on Wednesday, argues: that the current indecency ban is unconstitutional because of the ability of parents to employ the V-chip to prevent children from viewing objectionable material; that the notion of indecency is too subjective; that the FCC's regulation on the matter applies only to language, not images, and that in any case, the images in the case at hand -- scenes in the series Married by America -- were pixilated to blur out any explicit nudity.

05/06/2008