Friday, December 17, 2004  

JUST nine complaints of indecency to the FCC have sparked the federal investigation into NBC's telecast of the 2004 Summer Olympics.

Editor: More on the indecency front. Remember, it only takes one compaint. Seems the minimum standard has been exceeded by a factor of 9. But it seems the argument being made by raising the low number of complaints (in this incident and the one linked earlier in this blog) is that the content is not objectional using "contemporary community standards", one of the tests for whether a broadcast is indecent.

"It is believed that reports about the more surreal aspects of the ceremony — a group a male dancers dressed as anatomically correct ancient Greek art, and a topless female dancer wearing body paint — may have touched off the complaints. "

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