Hollywood Voices Decry Indecency Crackdown

HOLLYWOOD VOICES DECRY INDECENCY CRACKDOWN
[SOURCE: Broadcasting&Cable, AUTHOR: John Eggerton]
The Center for Creative Voices in Media, which includes some voices from the Hollywood production community, has added its voice to the court challenge by networks and TV stations of some of the FCC's indecency crackdown. "These Commission decisions put creative, challenging, controversial, non-homogenized broadcast television programming at risk, harming not only media artists, but the American public,” said Center Executive Director Jonathan Rintels, announcing his group's filing of a motion to intervene, which it is doing in support of the challenge. The Center also warned Monday against raising the indecency fines 10-fold or more, as would bills in Congress. "The consistent inconsistency of the FCC decisions, and the 'chilling effect' they place on free speech should concern and give pause to legislators now considering increasing these chilling FCC fines tenfold or more, and extending those fines to creative artists. Such legislation will chill even more speech that is supposed to be protected by the First Amendment."
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