on Jun 16th, 2006
FCC, yeah you know me?
Um, wow.
The quote from FCC Commissioner Deborah Taylor Tate (pdf):
“If numbers are any indication, many Americans are not happy about the way that their airwaves are being utilized,” she writes in a recent opinion. “The number of complaints filed with the FCC reached over one million in 2004. Indeed, since taking office in January 2006, I have received hundreds of personal e-mails from people all over this country who are unhappy with the content to which they—and, in particular, their families—are subjected.”
If I voluntarily sit and watch a show, am I really being subjected to content, whether moral or amoral? I mean, I am subjected to ultraviolet radiation and taxes; in these situations I have no choice. TV, however, yields to my thumb; I push the button and that black box powers off.
From this quote we learn that there are literally hundreds of emails. Hundreds. The current estimated population of the United States is 298,444,215. 298 million. Hundreds, millions, hundreds, millions… you get my point.
But if they turn it off, then hundreds of people would have to find something else to complain about or, heaven forbid, something constructive to do.
indeed.
Many seem to think that there is something in the constitution that protects them from being offended….Which is why I aim to offend.