[opendtv] Re: Garrison Keillor: Talk about obscenity

And,I gave you information not only on live news coverage, but the more
important situation of how a news broadcast becomes a "bona-fide newscast"
and avoids the equal time rule.

The only live event I know of where nobody can control what happens is a
press conference.  Remember the PA Secty of State who killed himself at a
live press conference in the mid 1980s?

Broadcasters, to one degree or another, or their program providers, have the
ability to control all aspects of a non-news live broadcast.  The only thing
congress did this last cycle on this issue was to enable the fine to apply
to not only broadcasters, but the "in control" Miss Jackson and her playful
ilk.

By the way, apparently NPR gets more content complaints about Prairie Home
Companiion (Mr. Keillor's fine radio show) than all other programs combined.
I heard this on NPR a week or two back.  These, apparently, are people to
whom the word "breast" is a patently offensive term.  It takes all kinds,
but these kind of complaints effectively go into the round file at the FCC.

And, let me remind people: the FCC's fines against CBS will not survive on
appeal.  Why?  As I've mentioned several times on this list, under FCC and
federal precedent, breasts are not sexual or excretory activities or
functions, which is the operative language.  While breastgate was patently
offensive, one has to meet all the requirements of the provision for the
fines to apply.  The worst that can come out of this is that breasts become
sex organs, but I doubt even this outcome.

John Willkie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Schubin" <tvmark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 6:20 AM
Subject: [opendtv] Re: Garrison Keillor: Talk about obscenity


> If you would read the first line of the original message, you would see
> that what was being discussed was not rulings and decisions but
> obscenities on live television, including "a live news event where
> nobody can control what happens."
>
> Are you trying to say, John, that obscenities on Entertainment Tonight
> and Larry King Live would not be problems?
>
> TTFN,
> Mark
>
>
> John Willkie wrote:
>
> >By fcc ruling, presidential press conferences and carrying addresses by
> >qualified candidates for elective office are news, and have been for at
> >least two decades, Mark.
> >
> >On the other hand, Entertainment Tonight is a bona-fide (fcc term) news
> >program, as is Larry King Live.  The advantage: you don't have to provide
> >equal time to all candidates in an election.
> >
> >John "who has actually read the rulings and decisions" Willkie
> >
> >----- Original Message ----- 
> >From: "Mark Schubin" <tvmark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 12:26 PM
> >Subject: [opendtv] Re: Garrison Keillor: Talk about obscenity
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>>There is a huge difference between broadcasting a live news event where
> >>>nobody can control what happens,
> >>>
> >>>
> >
> >
>
>
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