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FOX News "F" Bomb?

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freqgeek

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Did FOX news really drop an F Bomb during thier bottom of the hour news last night?
 
Yeah, they did. A recording of it is making the rounds. The reader was setting up a soundbite, and it sounds like he hit a button that played a very quick blurt of the word. He continued reading as if nothing had happened. I have no idea what the story is of how or why it happened.It'll be fun to see how many stations it aired on, and whether the FCC will do anything at all about it since it wasn't Howard Stern doing it.
 
The FCC won't do a thing about it because it was on cable. The FCC deals only with over-the-air broadcasters. That's how "South Park" gets away with a lot of its material.
 
I think it was Fox News Radio they're talking about.And by "last night," what time are we talking about? If it was after 10pm local time, it's a non-issue.
 
No, it wasn't on cable, it was over Fox Radio News, carried on hundreds of broadcast stations.And no, it wasn't after 10 PM, it was at 8:30 PM on Monday or Tuesday evening.And the time it happened makes no difference. Some words and descriptions do fall under "safe harbor" after 10, but we're talking about the dreaded lethal life-threatening F word, which the FCC has specifically said is a fine-able offense if uttered at any time under any circumstance.That doesn't guarantee anything will be done about it, of course, because the FCC has demonstrated repeatedly that they react to stuff like this with absolutely no kind of logic, consistency or common sense.
 
Some words and descriptions do fall under "safe harbor" after 10, but we're talking about the dreaded lethal life-threatening F word, which the FCC has specifically said is a fine-able offense if uttered at any time under any circumstance.
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No, the FCC said (wrongly and probably unconstitutionally, in my learned opinion) that the F-word was per se indecent in all usages (In re: Golden Globes (2004)). But, safe harbor allows indecent programming between 10pm and 6am local time (See, Pacifica v. FCC (1978) and Action for Childrens Television v. FCC (ACT III) (D.C. Cir. 1993)). Obscene programming is never permitted, but the Commission never said in Golden Globes that the F-word was obscene (which it couldn't because Supreme Court case law said the word wasn't). As such, the F-word would be permissible if used in a political, scientific, artistic, etc. manner during safe harbor hours. Almost by definition, a news broadcast falls into the political, artistic, etc. exclusion.But this is all academic if the sounder went out at 8.30pm, which surely is NOT safe harbor.
That doesn't guarantee anything will be done about it, of course, because the FCC has demonstrated repeatedly that they react to stuff like this with absolutely no kind of logic, consistency or common sense.
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Hear hear!
 
FAUX News...being the quasi-official mouthpiece of the Republicans...will suffer no repercussions from Fox Charlie Charlie in the way of fines. In fact, Dick Cheney...he of the "F-bomb" on the floor of the US Senate...will probably want to award them the "Medal of Freedom". ::)
 
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