Article Title
Abstract
[...]I propose depoliticizing the broadcast indecency regime by utilizing polling to determine the average broadcast viewer's opinion, divorced from all the pressures inherent in relying on the complaint process as a proxy. In section II, I will discuss the background and development of the broadcast indecency doctrine from the days of the Federal Radio Commission in the 1920s through the present day. I will also explain why the apparent increasing public unease is misleading, and why valid First Amendment concerns are steamrolled by the fiery nature of the debate. In section III, I will explain why the FCC's reliance on the complaint process violates its own indecency standards, and propose the use of polling to depoliticize the process.
Recommended Citation
Kurt Hunt,
The FCC Complaint Process and Increasing Public Unease: Toward an Apolitical Broadcast Indecency Regime,
14
Mich. Telecomm. & Tech. L. Rev.
223
(2007).
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https://repository.law.umich.edu/mttlr/vol14/iss1/7