The Parents Television Council asked members to file indecency co...
The Parents Television Council asked members to file indecency complaints with the FCC over ABC’s airing of a curse word on Good Morning America, a council release said Tuesday. During the 8 a.m. hour that day, actress Diane Keaton…
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told Diane Sawyer she wished she had the host’s “fucking personality.” The PTC called that “inappropriate and offensive” and President Tim Winter said Keaton and Sawyer “appeared to be amused by the profanity, making no sincere effort to apologize to the viewers.” Jeffrey Schneider, ABC News senior vice president, said both women had dealt with the matter on air. “It was very regrettable that Diane Keaton said that word, but I think it was clear to our viewers that Diane Sawyer was a little shocked by that and Keaton made an apology forthwith,” Schneider said in an interview. Sawyer did say that Keaton’s mother should wash her mouth out with soap. As a news show, Good Morning America airs without tape delay, Schneider said. Such a delay could have kept Keaton’s expletive off the air. ABC excised the utterance from rebroadcasts of the show outside the Eastern time zone, he said. FCC Chairman Kevin Martin told reporters Tuesday that he didn’t know enough about the incident to say whether the agency could issue a fine. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York last year sent back to the FCC a policy allowing it to fine a broadcaster for airing a “fleeting expletive.”