Submitted: September 26, 2006 - 8:20am
Last updated: February 21, 2008 - 3:58am
Last updated: February 21, 2008 - 3:58am
FCC FEAR CANCELS PBS AIRING
[SOURCE: Denver Post, AUTHOR: Dick Kreck]
Fear of fines from the Federal Communications Commission caused Rocky Mountain PBS to cancel the showing of the two-hour documentary "Marie Antoinette." "I took a look at it at 10 this morning," said James Morgese, president and general manager of RMPBS. "What I saw is nothing worse than what you see on TV elsewhere, but in this era of heightened sensitivity by the FCC, fines are pretty stiff." Specifically, he said, the questionable scenes were 200-year-old pencil drawings of nude couples having sex and "a very specific" discussion of Louis VXI's apparent impotency.
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