Bush signs law hiking TV, radio indecency fines

[im10ashus]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- President Bush Thursday signed into law legislation that raises fines tenfold on radio and television broadcasters that violate U.S. decency standards by airing extensive profanity or sexual content.

The new law, which boosts fines to as much as $325,000 per violation from $32,500, could help congressional Republicans woo conservatives in a tough election year as they have faced ebbing support from key core constituencies.

The Christian Coalition had placed legislation to increase the fines as the No. 5 item on its 2006 legislative agenda. The new law also caps any continuing violations from an incident at $3 million.

The drive for the higher fines came when pop singer Justin Timberlake ripped off part of duet partner Janet Jackson's costume and briefly exposed her breast during the 2004 Super Bowl football halftime entertainment show aired on national television.

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http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/06/15/broadcasting.fines.reut/index.html

[CottonBear]

1. All of the TV networks should be fined for showing dead Zarqawi photos.

My local paper published the photo in full color above the fold. It was bscene, disgusting and immoral. (

[BOSSHOG]

2. Fuck the christian coalition

The most obscene trash on TV is the so called "religious" shows where some fucking radical christian cleric pimps his worthless ass for dollars from people who can't afford to buy food and medicine. That's fucking obscene. I look forward to the civil war.

My hate is rational.

[MindPilot]

5. Speaking of medicine; we can watch commercials pitching remedies for the

grossest of bodily malfunctions, but a breast is obscene.

[im10ashus]

10. Your hate is very rational.

I can't stand when I come across those channels. Preying on the elderly for their donations is a crime, IMHO.

Rage on BOSSHOG!!

[MindPilot]

3. That sound is Lenny Bruce & Bill Hicks spinning in their graves.

Shit, piss, cunt, fuck, cocksucker, motherfucker, and TITs!

I'm just sayin'

[rocktivity]

4. Hike fines and penalites for business that hire illegal workers, too

Then you could finance their deportation!

:think:
rocknation

[WI_DEM]

6. it's indecent any time he appears on television or radio

[BOSSHOG]

7. Absolutely

A bunch of radical, ignorant, arrogant, religiously insane zealots are going to decide for me what's obscene? bush is fucking obscene. Hating in the name of Jesus Christ is obscene.

[madrchsod]

8. i posted this last night about this

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=1432014&mesg_id=1432014
Democratic Underground - CBS Stations: Indecency Complaints Invalid

here`s a reply to this thread from madmusic

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=1432014&mesg_id=1432041
Democratic Underground - Another example:

[InternalDialogue]

9. Let's pander to the religious right on broadcast fines, but

keep ignoring the pitiful safety fines for mining-company infractions.

Where the hell are our priorities when we put a price tag of $100 on life-threatening industrial violations, but slap networks more than a quarter million for showing a nipple.