Indecency Complaints: the Roller Coaster Statistics Continue

INDECENCY COMPLAINTS: THE ROLLER COASTER STATISTICS CONTINUE
[SOURCE: Lasar's Letter on the FCC, AUTHOR: Matthew Lasar]
Consumer indecency complaints continued their jagged, unpredictable pattern for the third quarter of 2006, FCC statistics indicate. The latest stats, issued on December 29th, indicate that the agency received 26,843 "indecency/obscenity" complaints in July, down to 3,108 in August, shooting up to 163,553 in September. In contrast, "general criticism" complaints remained steady at between 206 to almost 250 filings for the same three months. These figures conform to a "roller coaster" pattern for indecency complaints that goes back several years. 11,326 consumers filed indecency or obscenity complaints with the FCC in April of this year, the FCC reports, followed by 40,000 in May. But in June only 741 consumers lodged such complaints.
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