UC Law SF Communications and Entertainment Journal
Abstract
The FCC reinvigorated the decade-old Pacifica indecency standard in a trio of cases involving Howard Stern's popular radio talk show, songs aired on a college station, and a play about two gays dying of AIDS who discuss their sexual fantasies over the phone that was aired on Pacifica's Los Angeles station. The trio maintains a surprising consistency with past commission behavior. First, it is the direct result of politics and the need to give the Republican right a victory. Second, it reestablishes what the original Pacifica action was meant to cover. Finally, it is yet another example of the belief that unlimited support for consumer preferences is a policy to be avoided.
Recommended Citation
L. A. Powe Jr.,
Consistency over Time: The FCC's Indecency Rerun,
10 UC Law SF Comm. & Ent. L.J. 571
(1987).
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