Indecency Complaints Increase at FCC
By: Wade Garrett
Posted: 9:00 am PST 11-10-2005
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Although the number of complaints is up, the Progress and Freedom Foundation, a think tank backed by media companies, claims that the commission's figures give a false impression.
"The FCC now measures indecency complaints differently than all other types of complaints," Adam Thierer, a senior fellow at the outfit, told Reuters "In so doing, it permits a process whereby indecency complaints appear to be artificially inflated relative to other types of complaints."
Thierer claims that accounting changes at the FCC are giving too much weight to campaigns like those run by PTC.
On July 1, 2003, the agency began tallying each computer-generated complaint sent to the FCC by any advocacy group as an individual complaint, rather than as a single complaint as it had done previously. Then early in 2004 the FCC also began counting each complaint even if it was sent by the same person a number of times, Reuters reported. The changes grossly overstate the number of people who might actually have concerns about the content of broadcast programming.
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