Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 06/16/2008
"Married by America" may have been a flop - and gotten Fox in trouble with the Federal Communications Commission - but that's not stopping the producers at Magical Elves ("Project Greenlight," "Top Chef") from floating a project in which participants would agree to marriages arranged by family members - and, of course, to allowing the whole thing to be filmed through the first year of marriage.
Reuters (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Fox president of alternative entertainment Mike Darnell is responsible for some of the most vilified reality series ever created -- "The Swan," "Married by America," "Who Wants to Marry a Multimillionaire?" and "Temptation Island."
Cinema Blend Feeds (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
Reality TV has brought us some real gems Average Joe , The Pickup Artist , Temptation Island , and who can forget Married by America . But, I think CW just came up with the prize winner - Farmer Wants a Wife . I swear, I am not making it up back in February, we at Cinema Blend warned you that it was coming. Well, get ready, it's here, and you already missed the premiere.
MediaChannel (Free subscription) | 04/14/2008
By Jim Puzzanghera, LA Times A rebuke in federal court, a pending Supreme Court decision and broadcasters' resistance put enforcement efforts in limbo.
AdHurl (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
So the "Wizened of Oz's" News Corp is being sued by the Feds for violating the nation's indecency laws in an episode of the defunct reality program Married by America , in which offending body parts were electronically obscured. The Feds want to collect $56,000 in fines for airing the program which included... depictions of "the thrusting of a male stripper's crotch into a woman's face; a topless...
Media Law Prof Blog (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
The Justice Department is suing to enforce over $50,000 in fines imposed by the FCC on Fox over its "Married by America" program. Fox has refused to pay the fines, instead appealing the sanction through the courts. Read more here.
Media News (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
"Ars Technica readers may find the U.S. government's indecency rules laughable, but on Friday, the Department of Justice told Fox Television that it's not playing around. The DOJ sued Fox for refusing to pay a $56,000 Federal Communications Commission fine for a 2003 Married by America strip show that the agency called insufficiently pixelated. To be sure, there are insufficiencies involved in this...
Plastic: Most Recent (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
Plastic::Media::Censorship: The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has rejected News Corporation's appeal of a $91,000 indecency fine for a 2003 broadcast featuring strippers at bachelor and bachelorette parties.
Fundie Watch (Free subscription) | 04/05/2008
You remember "Let the people decide!"? And "It's the p arents' job, not the government!"? Some beautiful, egalitarian, democratic principles that fundies love to spout. You know, as long as the subject is "Things Fundies Agree With." When it comes to things like porn, liquor sales, and feminism, it's "ZOMG TEH EEEEBIL! WE NEED TO RESTORE MORALITY!!!11oneone" So when I want to watch some adult-oriented...
Raw Story (Free subscription) | 04/05/2008
Fox refuses to pay; calls fines arbitrary, capricious, unconstitutional.
Media News (Free subscription) | 04/05/2008
"In an unusual move, the Justice Department sued Fox Broadcasting Co. and another broadcaster Friday to collect $56,000 in fines for the broadcast of a raunchy reality show in 2003 that included scenes from bachelor and bachelorette parties. Fox's 'Married by America' included the 'thrusting of a male stripper's crotch into a woman's face' in one show in addition to other scenes the agency found objectionable,...
CNNMoney.com (Free subscription) | 04/05/2008
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TV Barn (Free subscription) | 04/05/2008
Daniel Pink is a classmate of mine from Northwestern. I've been looking forward to his newest book, The Adventures of Johnny Bunko, billed as the first American business book done entirely in manga. As if that weren't genre-twisting enough, Dan's...
Technology Blog (Free subscription) | 03/31/2008
Not exactly family fare, obviously, and over time viewers complained, as did assorted members of Congress and a group called the Parents Television Council , which seeks to reduce indecency in the entertainment industry. The FCC has gradually added to its list of targets, including two expletives used by Nicole Richie on the 2003 Billboard [...]
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 03/27/2008
Fox is refusing to pay a $91,000 indecency fine imposed by the Federal Communications Commission for a 2003 broadcast of the now-defunct reality show Married by America in which the naughty bits of strippers at a bachelor party were blurry but inferrable. The FCC conceded that "the pixelation of the female strippers' naked breasts and buttocks does render the material less explicit and graphic than...
