Screw the Parents Television Council

The BBQ Pit
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After hearing this tidbit on the radio, I went a searching to make sure of it’s validity. Sure enough, of the over 1 million complaints for indecency on TV, 99.8% were from the PTC. What the fuck? Don’t these people have anything better to do than to try and impose their prudish sensibilites on the rest of us? Apparently most people are fine with what TV is showing or are managing their viewing, or that of their children, to avoid what they find inappropriate or distasteful.

God damn, these fuck sticks wrapped in an ass hat, anal corndogs if you will, are part of the reason chunks of movies get clipped, Saving Private Ryan is pulled and people are heading to HBO and Cinemax. Go find a more worthwhile cause that most people would like to see solved, like hunger, crime or pop-stars lip-synching. Leave my TV alone, dammit, the human body isn’t something to be ashamed of!

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While I share your outrage at people who try to dictate morals to the rest of the world, I’m not sure why you’re so mad about the fact that 99.8% of the calls about indecent television came from an organization whose function is to make calls about indecent television.

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Because it’s 23 people over representing their views. And it’s not like other people have the option of ‘unobjecting’ to balance it out. I mean form the amount of complaints made, it seems like they are sending more objections than they have members for some shows. Should Fox really pay $1.2 million in fines because a couple of dozen people were upset?

4

OK, good point.

5

The other point is that they are organized and have something to complain about.

The “People Who Don’t Mind Tits on TV” coalition isn’t going to get a lot of airplay, despite there being more of us who would sign on in support. We simply aren’t a sufficiently squeaky wheel.

6

Is it actually 23 people, or was that hyperbole?

7

We just had a thread on these jokers:
Small but extremely vocal organization is bending the ear of the FCC
Is there really any need to open another one so soon?

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From what I got from the article, it’s only 23 people.

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I propose we form P.E.T.T.A. - People for Eyeing Televised T & A

We can then begin filing complaints that not enough skin was bared on X show, etc. Should be able to off-set the PTC

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Dear Mr. Powell:

Martha Stewart’s Living did not show enough tits for my family’s tastes. How will my children be able to grow up without a phobia regarding their own bodies if we must suffer through a full twenty-two minutes of Martha Stewart wearing a shirt.

On a related note, there were entirely too many tits on Hannity and Combs, and I’m not talking about anatomy.

Thank you,
Maus Magill

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That’s not quite right. We’re talking about one broadcast of one show for the 23 people figure.

The thing is, the PTC website has a complaint-letter generating script. Visitors to the web page are prompted to enter their address and press a single button that sends a form-letter to multiple recipients. For example:

Ironically, their latest “action alert” prompts the visitor for their zip code and name and then emails numerous newspapers in their state with identical letters on this subject:

Ha!

Anyway, according to the article, the FCC found only 23 people who complained about that episode of Married By America and submitted valid contact information. Of those people, only four opted to write something in their own words, and only one claimed to have actually seen the program in question.

“What about Heywood Jablome of 123 Fake St? Doesn’t his voice count in America?” :rolleyes: