A fine mess at the FCC

A FINE MESS AT THE FCC
[SOURCE: Los Angeles Times, AUTHOR: Joel Stein]
[Commentary] Even though Stein agrees that an episode of "Without a Trace" was in awful, soft-kiddie porn taste, the FCC should still abandon its fining campaign, he writes. It's a losing battle that will do nothing but exacerbate the end of the broadcast networks by making them safer, more nervous and lamer than cable. And by chasing everyone to cable and satellite radio, the FCC will cease to have any reason for being. The best thing the FCC can do is let the networks air their ridiculously unrealistic plots designed to scare suburban parents and get back to its main business, which Stein believe is continuously breaking up AT&T, then putting it back together again. The FCC's fight to protect kids from sex is useless because, as inappropriate as that teen sex orgy was, it's a whole lot tamer than what teens see online.
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-oe-stein21mar21,1,40...
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