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Three Strikes, You're Out … $1.2 Million

Matt Welch | 11.15.2004 1:46 PM

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Jeff Jarvis filed a Freedom of Information Act request to examine the alleged 159 complaints that triggered the FCC's record $1.2 million fine against a TV show called Married By America, only to discover that the number of originally worded letters was actually three.

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Matt Welch is an editor at large at Reason.

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