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18 lines
1.3 KiB
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title: 'Insert Nippular Pun of Your Choosing Here'
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date: '2008-07-21T10:16:09-04:00'
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permalink: /insert-nippular-pun-of-your-choosing-here/
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tags:
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- reading
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- television
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One wonders whether the final [outcome](http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/22/business/media/22cbs.html?ex=1374379200&en=47c5d1bbf04f9820&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink) (*please god*) of this debacle will get anything like the coverage (so to speak) that its origin did: the Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has overturned the fine of $550,000 levied by the FCC against CBS after Janet Jackson’s wardrobe malfunction during the 2004 Super Bowl.
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There are multiple mitigations of this judgment: CBS, of course, already paid the fine, and apologized profusely. And goodness knows that the amount they’ve paid their lawyers to handle this over the last three and a half years way outstrips the fine itself.
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But here’s to the Third Circuit, for pointing out the obvious: that the FCC had “arbitrarily and capriciously departed from its prior policy” of not punishing accidental, unplanned, brief, and otherwise stupidly trivial violations of “standards.”
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And let this be only the first of the insanely stupid things that have happened in the U.S. since January 2001 to be undone.
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