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Titolo: "Firends" e' indecente?

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Are 'Simpsons' and 'Friends' indecent?
FCC rejected complaints from watchdog group
WASHINGTON - Regulators rejected 36 complaints of indecency Monday against
popular TV shows including "Friends" and "The Simpsons."
The objections had been filed with the Federal Communications Commission by
the Parents Television Council, a watchdog group that frequently complains
about sex and violence on television.
"In context, none of the segments were patently offensive under contemporary
community standards for the broadcast medium, and thus not indecent," the
agency said in a statement. The FCC also ruled "the material was not
profane, in context."
Three members of the five-member FCC approved the orders: Chairman Michael
Powell and Kathleen Abernathy, both Republicans; and Democrat Jonathan
Adelstein. The two other commissioners, Democrat Michael Copps and
Republican Kevin Martin, dissented on parts of the rulings.
Copps said in a statement that the agency should have performed a more
thorough investigation. "I believe that some of these broadcasts present a
much closer call," he said.
Powell last week announced he was leaving the FCC in March. Martin, who has
been rumored to be among candidates to replace him as chairman, said nothing
about the complaints.
The Parents Television Council alleged that the programs, which aired
between Oct. 29, 2001, and Feb. 11, 2004, contained sexually explicit
segments or used indecent or profane language that violated indecency
standards.
"In what community in America are graphic terms for genitalia decent?" said
Lara Mahaney, a spokeswoman for the council. "The commission's ruling added
no clarification and added more confusion."
One complaint involved an episode of NBC's "Friends" that aired in May 2003.
In it, a female character, her husband and the husband's ex-girlfriend talk
about a fertility treatment at a medical office.
A complaint over "The Simpsons," which airs on Fox, included a scene in
which students carried picket signs with the phrases "What would Jesus
 glue?" and "Don't cut off my pianissimo."
Federal law bars nonsatellite radio and noncable television stations from
airing references to sexual and excretory functions between 6 a.m. and 10
p.m., when children are more likely to be listening and watching.
The FCC said the segments in question "were not patently offensive" within
the context of the shows.
The FCC's responses to indecency complaints have received extra scrutiny
since singer Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction" at last year's Super
Bowl halftime show.
The FCC received more than 1 million indecency complaints in 2004, most of
them involving the exposure of Jackson's breast during her performance.
Fines for indecent programming exceeded $7.7 million last year, a huge
increase from the $48,000 imposed in 2000, the year before Powell became
chairman.
Powell has said the crackdown was in response to mounting complaints from
consumers and Congress.
Copps criticized Monday's rulings as "rather cursory decisions" that did not
address the objections of viewers nor those of skittish broadcasters worried
about what may be too racy to air. He singled out concern for a movie that
aired on ABC in May 2003, "The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer."
A scene from the movie cited in the complaint included a male character
tying up a woman in bed and then applying ice to her abdomen.
Several House and Senate members say they plan to introduce bills in the
next few weeks to raise the maximum indecency fine. A similar bill that
would increase the top fine from $32,500 to as much as $500,000 per incident
stalled in Congress.
Cristina

 about a fertility treatment at a medical office.
La scena con Janice... beh in effetti lei un po' indecente lo e'.
Si vede che non hanno apprezzato le battute sui "girini" di Chandler.
Cristina


Mah.... Però lol!
F 

about a fertility treatment at a medical office.
negli States, perlomeno, questi genitori rompicoglioni li trattano
come meritano: hai fatto una lamentela e noi controlliamo, poi
verifichiamo in maniera imparziale e vediamo che avevi torto, hai
rotto i coglioni per niente. In Italia no, subito si spaventano e
tolgono, tagliano, cancellano. Non che la televisione americana sia un
paradiso, ma il fatto che la FCC abbia dichiarato che il materiale
contestato non era, di fatto, osceno mi sembra un bel risultato.
Quella scena in Friends era deliziosa. Un argomento drammatico e
attuale trattato con leggerezza e sensibilita'. Ci vuole tutto il
coraggio di quei minchioni per contestarlo.
-- 
j./Merdimonio.
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