What the Public Thinks About
Sex, Vulgarity & Violence on Television
by Morality in Media
The Importance of Making Complaints
By Robert Peters
President of Morality in Media
OBSCENE OR INDECENT PROGRAMMING ON TV
Prepared by Morality in Media
Broadcast Indecency and the First Amendment
A presentation to the New York State Bar Association
Obama: Letter re: Supreme Court Nomination, May 2010
By Robert Peters, President of Morality in Media
Rejected PETA SuperBowl AD, January 2009
By Robert Peters, President of Morality in Media
Panel discussion on the subject of “Defining and Regulating Media Indecency”
Presentation by Robert Peters, President of Morality in Media at St. Johns University School of Law
February 6, 2008
More than half of adult Americans say the FCC should have authority to fine major TV networks for airing a single expletive - News Release from Morality In Media, Inc.
MIM Comments to FCC re Effects of Cursing
What Carl's Jr. offers for sale is beef burgers, but what it serves on TV is smut burger and possibly a broadcast pig - NEWS RELEASE from MORALITY IN MEDIA, Inc.
News on indecency—letter to President Bush; fines bills reintroduced
More than half of Adult Americans believe the FCC is doing a poor job of maintaining community standards of decency on broadcast TV
NEW YORK (April 25, 2005) – More than half (53%) of adult Americans say the Federal Communications Commission is doing a “poor job” of maintaining community standards of decency on broadcast TV, particularly during the evening hours from 8 pm to 10 pm, according to a new poll conducted by Harris Interactive for Morality in Media. More than twice as many adult Americans believe the FCC is doing a “very poor” job (33%) versus a “very good” job (15%).
TV and radio stations on notice:
Indecency violations could lead to license revocations
Television and radio stations are now on notice that repeated violations of the Federal Broadcast Indecency Statute (18 USC 1464) may lead to license revocation.
Turn Off TV Day:
When is Turn Off TV Day? What can I do on Turn Off TV Day, and how did it get started?
MIM Comments to the FCC on the 'original' TV ratings proposal
Morality in Media submitted these comments to the FCC when the TV, cable, and movie industries submitted their first TV ratings proposal, announced on 19 December 1996. MIM criticized the system as 'another excuse for the TV industry to flaunt standards of decency and civility.'
MIM Comments to the FCC on the 'revised' TV ratings proposal
When the TV industry announced they would add content tags to the TV ratings (10 July 1997), MIM objected to the vague criteria that TV producers would use to rate their own programming.
MIM
commends FCC for indecency notice against Fox Television
Howard
Stern's planned radio program on Sirius Satellite Radio is not an acceptable
compromise
Finally,
broadcast network TV is no longer above the law that prohibits indecent or
profane language
MIM Comments
to the FCC on the 'Golden Globes' Case
Jackson/Timberlake
Super Bowl performance 'a national disgrace'
MIM
commends FCC for indecency notice against Clear Channel
MIM
issues Comments in support of review of FCC's 'Golden Globes' indecency
decision
FCC's
order on 'Golden Globes' vulgarism 'a complete breakdown of moral sanity'