Define its history and how things have
changed:
- The FCC and Broadcast Standards & Practices: Obscenity, Indecency and Profanity. It is a violation of
federal law to air obscene programming at any time. It is also a violation to broadcast indecent or profane
programming during certain hours.
Explain why cable networks are not subject to the same rules as broadcast networks, which work hard to avoid
violations by policing themselves with departments of Broadcast Standards & Practices. Answer the question:
What are Broadcast
Standards & Practices? How have they changed? Include in this paper:
- George Carlin (comedian) – The Seven Words You Can’t Say On TV (That was then. What about now?)
- NYPD Blue – Script Negotiations with ABC (What was shocking then, and is it still shocking now?)
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