Shame on You, September!

by on January 18, 2007 · 2 comments

I would quote this Ars article, but really, a picture is worth a thousand words:

As the priceless tagline to the story puts it: “Obscenity complaints to the FCC jumped 40,000 percent between August and September 2006. Shame on you, September! Don’t you know that our children are watching?”

What’s happening here, obviously, isn’t that the major networks decided to start running porn during prime time in September. Rather, groups like the Parents Television Council put out an action alert describing the filthiest moments in television they can find, and their members (the vast majority of whom probably didn’t even watch the show) send form letters to the FCC.

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Tim Lee / Timothy B. Lee (Contributor, 2004-2009) is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. He is currently a PhD student and a member of the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University. He contributes regularly to a variety of online publications, including Ars Technica, Techdirt, Cato @ Liberty, and The Angry Blog. He has been a Mac bigot since 1984, a Unix, vi, and Perl bigot since 1998, and a sworn enemy of HTML-formatted email for as long as certain companies have thought that was a good idea. You can reach him by email at leex1008@umn.edu.

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