Without A Teen Sex Orgy
June 15th 2006 15:07
Category: Posters
How much does it cost to air a teen orgy scene on American TV? Well, the answer is $3 million. And that's not even covering actors fees and production cost.
The CBS show, Without A Trace, was slapped with a US$3.3m indecency fine for including a teen sex orgy scene in one of its episodes. But now CBS is retaliating against it, saying that it is invalid because the people who filed the complaints never even saw the show, and that they were only robotically following the orders of their cult leaders at the PTC and the American Family Association.
CBS says that 100% of the 4,211 complaints filed with the feds about this episode of Without A Trace came from web-based e-mail form letters originating from 2 right-wing christian groups (the PTC and the American Family Association). Only two complainers claimed to have seen the show, but made an inaccurate reference to another scene, thus blowing their cover.
But the brunt of the issue lies with a technicality in the indecency complaint process: the FCC can only consider complaints from viewers in the station's broadcast area. Therefore, CBS alleges, the PTC and AFA-initiated complaints against Without A Trace are invalid.
I don't know, but it all sounds quite complicated. This brings to mind the Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction incident. I'm not familiar with broadcasting law, but I find that most of these accusations to be blown up to unnecessary proportions.
I watched the teen sex orgy scene on that Without A Trace episode and it isn't so bad. Perhaps they just didn't like to encourage the notion of orgies. Too Sodom-ish maybe. Anyway, judge for yourself and watch it here.
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