House Panel Pushes TV, Radio to Clean Up Shows

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - House lawmakers on Wednesday called on television and radio broadcasters to clean up their act by instituting stricter standards after renewed complaints about the coarseness of some programming.

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The FCC on Tuesday proposed fining radio broadcaster Clear Channel Communications $755,000 for airing, among other things, purported cartoon characters describing explicit sexual activities at a time when children were likely to be listening.

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/reuters20040128_347.html

That last bit sounds like they're going to go after Rush for talking about Clinton.


Naahhhhhhhh!

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1. Ohhhh, that's what they mean

by clean air?

Glad to see their priorities are in order.

[illini]

2. Ya I was watching this on C-Span and was so offended that......

I changed the channel.