Morality in Media urged Senate Commerce Committee to press FCC no...
Morality in Media urged Senate Commerce Committee to press FCC nominees during confirmation hearing today (May 17) on their positions on broadcast indecency law enforcement. In full-page Washington Times ad May 16, group said FCC’s present enforcement record on…
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issue “is a disgrace” and asked that committee members determine whether nominees Michael Powell, Kathleen Abernathy, Kevin Martin and Michael Copps would uphold broadcast decency standards. “If the FCC is to play a vital role in protecting the public interest, the commissioners who head it must themselves believe that the Commission has such a role to play,” it said. “If a nominee’s purpose in ’serving’ on the FCC is to dismantle it in order to protect media interests to further a political ideology, that nominee should not be confirmed.”