Blast from the Past Ass: FCC Seeks To Fine ABC $1.4M For Indecent 2003 "NYPD Blue" Episode

[gatorboy]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/01/26/fcc-seeks-to-fine-abc-1_n_83377.html

WASHINGTON — The Federal Communications Commission has proposed a $1.4 million fine against 52 ABC Television Network stations over a 2003 broadcast of cop drama NYPD Blue.

The fine is for a scene where a boy surprises a woman as she prepares to take a shower. The scene depicted "multiple, close-up views" of the woman's "nude buttocks" according to an agency order issued late Friday.

ABC is owned by the Walt Disney Co. The fines were issued against 52 stations either owned by or affiliated with the network.

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The agency said the show was indecent because "it depicts sexual organs and excretory organs _ specifically an adult woman's buttocks."

The agency rejected the network's argument that "the buttocks are not a sexual organ."

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[liberal N proud]

1. 2003?

That is 5 years ago.

Do they have some one sitting there going through old episodes looking for something that violates their MORALITY rules?

[Sherman A1]

2. Yeah, read this earlier

What a bunch of Maroons.... Jeepers this was 2003, don't we have any more current wardrobe malfunctions to deal with?:banghead:

[NutmegYankee]

3. ABC should do a protest show.

Have all the women dress up in Burkas and have "religious police" dressed in brown shirts with FCC armbands beating them if they show an ankle. That would be epic.

[BlueJazz]

4. Damn..It's time we Men did something about those Women's Disgusting Buttocks.

I mean...what do we tell our Children ??

[Roland99]

5. Didn't NYPD Blue air at 10pm? Outside the timeframe?

[BlueJazz]

6. Now that I think more about it, we men need to see more of these buttocks..to ...ah...

...ah...Evaluate the situation.