Why Kate Hates the FCC

A collection of newspaper snippets depicting the Nazi-like regime of the FCC in the USA.

One of the first to incur the wrath of the newly muscular FCC, U2 singer Bono was censured by the FCC for his use of the F-word when accepting a Golden Globe award in 2003. The initial FCC ruling was that his use of the offending word (”This is really, really, fucking brilliant!”) was merely crude and offensive. However, it was amended over a year later in light of the Nipplegate incident, when all use of the F-word was forbidden.

Nervousness about the use of the F-word and the threat of sanction from the FCC reached an apotheosis when 66 local stations dropped plans to show Steven Spielberg’s second world war drama because of its explicit language.

The FCC launched an investigation into complaints of indecency - ie, partial nudity - in NBC’s coverage of the opening ceremony of the 2004 Athens Olympics.

American public television network PBS is censoring BBC drama documentary Dirty War. PBS said it would cut scenes featuring a naked woman being decontaminated in a shower, in the film that centres on the aftermath of a dirty bomb attack on London.

Click the title for the entire list, it's a little dated ('05) but it gives you the general idea.