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Policing the airways: the debate over indecency.
Byline: Liz Harper
For years, parents have complained about the rise of sex, violence and crude language on television and radio, so why is broadcast indecency getting so much attention now?
After 90 million people, many of them kids, watched the Super Bowl's half-time performance that ended with the exposure of singer Janet Jackson's breast, some 500,000 people wrote angry letters to government officials about the rise of lewd sexuality and vulgarity on television.
Since that infamous half-time show, Congress and the Federal Communications Commission, the government agency that oversees the telecommunications and media industry, have been reviewing ways to better enforce broadcast indecency laws.
SO, WHAT IS INDECENCY?
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