Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Supreme court indecency

  • The Supreme Court seemed reluctant Tuesday to end the government's historic policing of the broadcast airwaves and to strike down the "indecency" rules that guide prime-time TV shows.
  • (Los Angeles Times)
  • The Supreme Court doesnt televise its proceedings.
  • (Hollywood Reporter)
  • WASHINGTON, D.C.
  • (Variety)
  • The hushed and hallowed halls of the U.S. Supreme Court are not a place one At issue was whether the court should strike down or sharply limit the indecency rules adopted during the Bush administration by the Federal Communications Commission.
  • (Los Angeles Times)
  • Federal law has been in place to protect children from broadcast indecency since the dawn of the medium — nearly a century.
  • (USA Today)
  • The U.S. Supreme Court seemed disinclined during a hearing today to meddle with FCC rules governing decency on the public airwaves.
  • (Deadline.com)
  • Occupy Wall Street moved to the Supreme Court on Tuesday, with a tiny but very vocal group of protestors reeling off Carlins famous "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television.
  • (TheWrap)
  • Its never easy to admit a mistake, but the Supreme Court is being asked today to acknowledge a major blunder it made more than 30 years ago when it gave the green light to the federal governments regulation of indecency on broadcast TV.
  • (Denver Post)
  • The Supreme Court Tuesday heard oral arguments on the constitutionality Justice Elena Kagan appeared to agree the standards on indecency seem arbitrary.
  • (United Press International)

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