Short Slighted

Little people are calling on the Federal Communications Commission to ban the use of the word "midget" on broadcast TV.
The group Little People of America said Sunday the word is just as offensive as racial slurs.
The request was prompted by an April episode of NBC's "Celebrity Apprentice" that the group said was demeaning.
In the episode, contestants created a detergent ad called "Jesse James and the Midgets." The contestants, including Joan Rivers, suggested bathing little people in the detergent and hanging them to dry.
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Indecent Impotence

If a couple of congressmen have their way, ads for Cialis or Viagra would fall under the FCC's definition of indecency and be relegated to late evening and overnight time periods under potential penalty of hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines for stations.
A bill introduced last week by Rep. Jim Moran (D-VA)-he has one co-sponsor so far, Rep. Robert Brady (R-TX)-would effectively ban broadcasters from airing any ad for erectile dysfunction or "male enhancement" between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m., essentially mandating that such ads fall under the FCC's enforcement of indecency.
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Supreme Court to Rule on Janet's Boob?

The Federal Communications Commission has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review the indecency case over Janet Jackson's breast-baring performance at the 2004 Super Bowl.
The FCC this week appealed a ruling by the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia, saying that court was wrong to throw out the case and a $550,000 fine against CBS Corp. in July.
The appellate court cited the FCC practice of not considering objectionable images indecent if they are "fleeting."
In Jackson's halftime show at the 2004 Super Bowl, which spawned the case, she briefly flashed a breast as she performed with Justin Timberlake.
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Super Bowl Breast Appeal

Among the most notorious on-screen gaffes ever, Janet Jackson's breast-baring "wardrobe malfunction" on CBS during the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show drew a $550,000 indecency fine from the Federal Communications Commission. Now a federal appeals court has thrown it out.
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FCC deems TMZ 'real news'

"Based on the record before us," the FCC said, "we conclude that TMZ does qualify as a bona fide newscast because it reports news of some area of current events in a manner similar to more traditional newscasts..."
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Fox v FCC

WASHINGTON D.C. -- The Fox Network refused to pay the federal government a $91,000 fine for indecent exposure during an episode of the defunct reality program "Married by America" in which possibly offending body parts were pixelated.
Hollywood Reporter article is HERE