Involving FCC’s Consumer & Govt. Affairs Bureau in handling broad...
Involving FCC’s Consumer & Govt. Affairs Bureau in handling broadcast indecency complaints “will only have the effect of extending the period of time required for the Commission to impose forfeitures,” Coalition for Family- Friendly Media said in latest round…
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of comments on agency’s informal complaints rulemaking (CI 02-32). Group was responding to proposal to establish uniform, single point of contact within bureau for consumers to file complaints. However, Coalition said Bureau didn’t have authority to start forfeiture or license revocation proceedings. It also said “the broadcast indecency standard as currently enforced by the FCC is virtually a dead letter. the state of the broadcast medium today is the equivalent of a free-fire zone, where anything goes at almost any hour, and material that is inarguably illegal is allowed to flourish.” The group also charged there had been “disturbing examples” recently of “media intimidation and retaliation against citizens who file indecency complaints.”