At long [insert expletive here] last, the Federal Communications Commission is doing something about the backlog of broadcast indecency complaints that have hounded the agency since the Supreme Court tossed the rules back to the agency last June.
In what could be a prelude to a major change in broadcast indecency policy, the FCC is asking for public comment about whether it should focus only on egregious cases, the approach outgoing chairman Julius Genachowski favored when the high court ruled the FCC failed to give Fox and ABC fair notice prior to network broadcasts of fleeting expletives on Fox and brief nudity on ABC.
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