FCC: "uncostitutional and inconsistent"

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LOS ANGELES - Four TV broadcast networks and their affiliates have filed court challenges to a March 15 Federal Communications Commission ruling that found several programs "indecent" because of language.

ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox, along with their network affiliate associations and the Hearst-Argyle Television group of stations, filed notices of appeal in various federal courts, including in Washington D.C. and New York. Some were filed late Thursday and the rest Friday morning.

The move represents a protest against the aggressive enforcement of federal indecency rules that broadcasters have complained are vague and inconsistently applied. Millions of dollars in fines have been levied based on those rules.

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The networks and affiliate groups, representing more than 800 individual stations, issued a rare joint statement Friday calling the FCC ruling "unconstitutional and inconsistent with two decades of previous FCC decisions.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060414/ap_en_tv/tv_indecency

[gatlingforme]

1. It's about time.

[soothsayer]

2. They should have piped up long ago when Howard was under

ridiculous fundie attack. A-hole bushites.