PTC vs. Survivor
The Parents Television Council wants to kill Survivor!
The watchdog organization has filed a complaint with the FCC about last week’s Marcus/penis incident and is encouraging others to do the same. CBS has described the incident as a “completely unintentional, inadvertent and fleeting incident that was virtually undetectable when viewed in real-time…In the first 24 hours after the broadcast, before freeze-frame images were widely posted online, we received one viewer comment from the 13 million who watched the telecast.”
Nonetheless, the PTC says: “CBS’ decision to hide behind excuses that the incident was ‘fleeting’ and didn’t generate an immediate flood of complaints is the epitome of irresponsibility. The number of ‘fleeting’ penises we expect to see on broadcast television is zero.”
Popsquire’s perspective…
If the Parents Television Council read Popsquire, then they’d know they are wasting their time with this complaint. The FCC typically has fined indecent broadcast programming only when it was so “pervasive as to amount to ’shock treatment’ for the audience.” Of course, the $500,000 fine — for which the PTC fought hard — arising out of the 2004 Janet Jackson Nipple Gate strayed from that tradition and, as a result, a federal court of appeals ruled in July that the fine against CBS was out of Control.
October 2nd, 2008 at 1:16 pm
PTC had better leave my primetime the hell alone! I have a 2, 4, and 5 year old and I’ll control what they watch, thank you very much. Grrrr.