A conservative advocacy group plans to file a complaint against the CBS television network for allowing the "f" and "s" words to air multiple times as part of a Sunday evening documentary on the 9/11 terror attacks.
"During the course of the program, CBS affiliates chose to broadcast multiple obscenities over the public airwaves at a time they knew children would be watching," the American Family Association said.
The AFA said CBS had been warned against airing the obscenities, but the network chose not to mute the offending words. "The network stations purposely chose to violate federal and FCC law by airing the program," the AFA said.
The group is urging people to "please file a complaint with the FCC against your CBS station for the broadcast of indecent language."
Depending on what the FCC decides, each station that aired the documentary could be fined $325,000. The very threat of such a fine prompted some CBS affiliates to avoid airing the program on Sunday night.
Defenders of the documentary -- which follows actual firefighters called to Ground Zero on 9/11 -- say that the swearing was done by real people in the heat of the moment and is part of the historical record.
The 9/11 firefighters' documentary first aired in 2002, but that was before the FCC cracked down on broadcasters. SOURCE
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I really hope this case puts the FCC in their place.
What do you think?
How can a conservative group have no issue with the violence, death, and murder of this show being aired, but only be concerned about the two words FUCK and SHIT used in the movie?
Where the HELL are these people coming from?
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