The Daily Stern
: CENSORS NEVER SLEEP: An FCC commissioner says they’re still hard at work bleeping America:
Despite a cooling of interest in the subject among mainstream media, FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein tells R&R his agency is still hard at work with the increased indecency enforcement efforts it launched earlier this year. “It got a lot of attention in the wake of the Super Bowl incident, but there’s a lot of discussion still currently going on, and we have a number of items in the pipeline that we’re looking at,” he said this morning. “Maybe you’re not seeing as much out in the public because the fear has passed and the media has moved on to something else, but here at the FCC we are continuing to press forward on a vast pile of complaints.” But Adelstein insists the renewed interest in indecency enforcement hasn’t distracted the FCC from other issues on its agenda. “We have many responsibilities, and while it’s one that I don’t think we were doing a very good job on until recently, I’m glad that we’ve increased our enforcement efforts,” he said. “We are taking the rules very seriously, and I think it’s having a very good effect. It’s what the public wanted us to do, and it’s what Congress requires us to do under the statute.”
Did you consider, fool, that it’s not just the media that has moved on but the people? Janet Jackson’s boop is old news and you’re still attacking the First Amendment because of it. [via I Want Media]
