FCC fines FOX for pixelated strippers

From Ars Technica

FCC on indecency tear, fines Fox for pixelated naughty bits

'The Federal Communications Commission continued its indecency rampage on Friday, rejecting all appeals and fining 14 Fox affiliate TV stations for broadcasting an episode of Married By America that featured a strip show. "We find that the material, in context, was presented in a pandering and titillating manner," the FCC ruled in its Forfeiture Order. "Indeed, the whole point of the strippers' performances appears to be to titillate the brides- and grooms-to-be, and, by extension, the audience."'

But the agency's final decision on Married refused to give Fox a break for doing precisely what the FCC punished ABC TV just days earlier for not doing in a 2003 broadcast of NYPD Blue: pixelating "sexual" body parts. ABC says that they have paid its fine, but will take the FCC to court over the decision.'

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