FCC: No Buttocks on the Boob Tube
Jeff Jarvis got his dander up, and rightly so, over the FCC deciding to get all puritan again over some exposed skin on the boob tube. (I really enjoyed writing boob tube just then. It seems oh, so appropriate.)
This time instead of breasts it is buttocks that have some folks riled up. Enough, so it seems, that the FCC has now started redefining anatomy, calling buttocks a "sexual organ" in the offending episode of NYPD Blue, which aired five years ago.
Let's leave the anatomical discussions to those who know better, as the FCC apparently does. I know the wheels of justice move slowly, but, did it really take five years to determine this? As a taxpayer, I'd like some sort of accounting on why it took the FCC so long to determine that the buttocks in question were offensive enough to level a fine, sexual organ or no.
I didn't see the episode, but I'm guessing there's more overtly titillating flesh exposed by cheerleaders on an NFL game than there was here.
