Obscenity on TV—Live Now on the Web!

Nick Gillespie | November 29, 2005

Check out the C-SPAN feed right now to check out testimony and moralizing senators yammering on about just how evil the world of cable and satellite TV and radio is--and how much it demands government content regulation. Earlier, Sen. Mark Pryor went off on how he's "scared to death" for his kids to turn on the boob tube if he's not there to cover their eyes. A woman from the Christian Coalition just wrapped up comments about how she shudders for her country when she reflects that God loves only the Disney Channel.

And now Frank Wright, head of the National Religious Broadcasters, is running down exceptions to the First Amendment with a smile to his face. And when it comes to broadcast and media, "We're only talking about restrictions on indecency from 6AM to 10PM," he explains helpfully, adding that the rationale for the indecency standards in broadcast apply to cable and satellite.

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