Broadcasters Want Supreme Court to Bring Certainty to Indecency Rules

Enforcement in limbo for years now

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At long f—ing last, the TV business may finally get some clarity on the Federal Communications Commission's updated indecency rules, which have kept the networks—and the regulator itself—tied up in knots since 2004.

Anything has to be better than the perpetually confusing status quo, in which Saving Private Ryan, which included lots of soldiers swearing in the heat of battle, was OK, but The Blues—a documentary that Martin Scorsese produced for PBS which included a few obscenities—was not, and no one could figure out why a single F-bomb that no one saw coming was indecent.

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