Administrative/Regulatory
May 1, 2012
Indecency back before the High Court: FCC seeks review of CBS ‘wardrobe malfunction’ case
The networks say the FCC's current policy is too hard to figure out and penalizes the use of particular words in some instances but not in others.
On April 17, the Federal Communications Commission asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review an appeals court decision overturning the $550,000 fine that the agency imposed on CBS after Janet Jackson's notorious "wardrobe malfunction" during the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show.
For the second time this year, in FCC v. CBS Corp., the Obama Administration is going to the Court to defend the FCC's standards which are used to police the airwaves for racy images and dialogue. So...For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
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