Anybody listening to "Unfiltered" on AAR? Fox's fine for "married by

[LittleApple81]

America" was instigated by 90 some (not sure exact number, but less than 100)complaints, of which only 23 were original. The rest were copies by the same people. And ALL of them were copies of a form letter produced by a nut-job organization ("concerned parents for America" or some such baloney.) So there you have it, folks, we are being controlled by 3 people....

[Unstuck In Time]

1. That's from a terrific column by Frank Rich in the NY Times

"... The F.C.C. and the family values crusaders alike are cooking their numbers. The first empirical evidence was provided this month by Jeff Jarvis, a former TV Guide critic turned blogger. He had the ingenious idea of filing a Freedom of Information Act request to see the actual viewer complaints that drove the F.C.C. to threaten Fox and its affiliates with the largest indecency fine to date - $1.2 million for the sins of a now-defunct reality program called "Married by America." Though the F.C.C. had cited 159 public complaints in its legal case against Fox, the documents obtained by Mr. Jarvis showed that there were actually only 90 complaints, written by 23 individuals. Of those 23, all but 2 were identical repetitions of a form letter posted by the Parents Television Council. In other words, the total of actual, discrete complaints about "Married by America" was 3."

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/28/arts/28rich.html

[LittleApple81]

3. Thanks for the link to the article with the correct numbers. What an

amazing bunch of idiots we have for a government....hmmmmm...no, my mistake, they use this because it is what they want to do. It is rather what a bunch of idiot lemmings Americans have become. Why was there no outrage against the outrage? No only Fox (Yuk) but Howard Stern, Jeanette Jackson's mammary gland exposure, etc.?

[Not_Giving_Up]

2. Yep, I always listen to AAR when at work

My repuke bosses just roll their eyes and turn up Hannity

Loved what they said about the MNF thing