{"id":368,"date":"2004-12-07T01:22:39","date_gmt":"2004-12-07T05:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meisterplanet.com\/journal\/?p=368"},"modified":"2004-12-07T01:23:28","modified_gmt":"2004-12-07T05:23:28","slug":"activist-group-account-for-99-of-all-fcc-compaints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2004\/12\/07\/activist-group-account-for-99-of-all-fcc-compaints\/","title":{"rendered":"Activist group accounts for 99% of all FCC compaints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediaweek.com\/mediaweek\/headlines\/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000731656\">Mediaweek.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In an appearance before Congress in February, when the controversy over Janet Jackson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Super Bowl moment was at its height, Federal Communications Commission chairman Michael Powell laid some startling statistics on U.S. senators.<\/p>\n<p>The number of indecency complaints had soared dramatically to more than 240,000 in the previous year, Powell said. The figure was up from roughly 14,000 in 2002, and from fewer than 350 in each of the two previous years. There was, Powell said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153a dramatic rise in public concern and outrage about what is being broadcast into their homes.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>What Powell did not reveal\u00e2\u20ac\u201dapparently because he was unaware\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwas the source of the complaints. According to a new FCC estimate obtained by Mediaweek, nearly all indecency complaints in 2003\u00e2\u20ac\u201d99.8 percent\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwere filed by the Parents Television Council, an activist group.<\/p>\n<p>This year, the trend has continued, and perhaps intensified.<\/p>\n<p>Through early October, 99.9 percent of indecency complaints\u00e2\u20ac\u201daside from those concerning the Janet Jackson \u00e2\u20ac\u0153wardrobe malfunction\u00e2\u20ac\u009d during the Super Bowl halftime show broadcast on CBS\u00e2\u20ac\u201d were brought by the PTC, according to the FCC analysis dated Oct. 1. (The agency last week estimated it had received 1,068,767 complaints about broadcast indecency so far this year; the Super Bowl broadcast accounted for over 540,000, according to commissioners\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 statements.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Interesting statistics, and perhaps further proof that the majority of people feel that they have more than enough control over the public airwaves in the form of their remote, without the need to complain to the FCC anytime they come across something they find objectionable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Mediaweek.com: In an appearance before Congress in February, when the controversy over Janet Jackson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Super Bowl moment was at its height, Federal Communications Commission chairman Michael Powell laid some startling statistics on U.S. senators. The number of indecency complaints had soared dramatically to more than 240,000 in the previous year, Powell said. The figure &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2004\/12\/07\/activist-group-account-for-99-of-all-fcc-compaints\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Activist group accounts for 99% of all FCC compaints&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-news","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}