Mon.’s court remand of FCC indecency policy has created scant buz...
Mon.’s court remand of FCC indecency policy has created scant buzz - at least outside D.C., gauged by sales at a website selling anti-FCC T-shirts and coffee mugs and talk among TV producers. Creative types aren’t atwitter over the…
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2nd U.S. Appeals Court, N.Y., ruling (CD June 5 p1) because it doesn’t affect viewer taste, Rene Balcer, exec. producer of NBC’s Law & Order series, told us. Producers “don’t see that it will change anything,” he said: “We don’t respond to the FCC. We respond to the marketplace.” The ruling didn’t send FCCFu.com sales spiking, said Paul Fey, whose company, World Wide Wadio, runs the site. Since the FCC issuance last year of a record tally of indecency fines, the site has been selling products mocking the agency. Among communications lawyers, chatter is high on what the FCC will do to resolve the court remand.