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Media hypocrisy: What the FCC?

Published Wednesday, November 17, 2004 by seanlmccarthy | E-mail this post

As with Janet Jackson, so too with MNF...the FCC says it'll investigate the station that initially broadcasts the so-called impropriety, but looks away when every other station -- from CNN to ESPN to all of your local TV newscasts -- rebroadcast the same "indecent" clips over and over and over again. What gives? Does calling indecency "news" let you broadcast same under different (read: lower) standards?