Battle Stations
August, 2001
The Federal Communications Commission has been policing the nation's airwaves since 1934 to make sure no one says or does anything that the agency judges to violate the public morality. Federal law requires violators to be punished with fines and/or jail time.For years, the FCC took action only against broadcasters who used any of the seven dirty words made famous by George Carlin. But in 1987 the agency expanded its criteria to include all varieties of indecency. It also created a "safe ha...
