I am highly offended by the sexual content in the latest Hardees/Carl's Jr. television commercials known as "Patty Melt" and "Flat Buns." In my opinion, they violate local community standards.
Because you are licensed to "serve the public interest" in our community, I request that you refuse to air these ads. If you are already airing them, I ask you to stop.
As required by law, please place a copy of this e-mail letter in your station's public file, to be readily available to FCC representatives, specifically during the license renewal period for your station.
no, i'm not making that up. someone complained that the newspaper (a print body) had aired an offensive ad and was complaining to the fcc, a body that regulates broadcast media (in other words, not non-print bodies). after i got done laughing at the rediculousness of the letter itself, the object of the letter's venom, and the method of getting the paper in trouble, i sent this off:
Typical social neo-conservative tactics were on display last Thursday. There was a letter to the editor printed, one of about 30, that bemoaned the fact that a racy Hardee's/Carl's Jr. ad was aired and that the newspaper was being reported to the FCC. Re-read that again: a NEWSPAPER was being reported to the Federal Communications Commission, a body that regulates TELEVISION and RADIO.
Don't these people give up or even have one sniff of a clue (apparantly not, but bear with me)? First of all these people have their tactics for getting things removed down to a science using form letters and send the same letter multiple times to the broadcaster and the FCC. Keith Olbermann reported last year that a very high percentage of these FCC complaints, 99.8%, of these came from one group, The Parent's Television Council which doesn't know the meaning of "change the channel", "turn off the tv", or "control your child's viewing habits". Literally one person could send off hundreds or thousands of messages to the FCC to give the impression of mass outrage when it is nothing more than an attempt to get something one person doesn't like off the air.
Second, are these people that stupid to not know that the FCC has no control over what anyone prints? It's why hate speech found in books such as the Turner Diaries are allowed to print. It's why most neo-Nazi material has to be imported to other countries from this one. Those would have been materials long since banned by the FCC because they truely are offensive to any rational human.
Please neo-cons, if you are going to make a complaint, at least get your medium straight. Or better yet, if something offends you, change the channel, turn off the tv, control your child's viewing or stop reading the newspaper. They may all have something offensive you may not like seeing, like the violence in Iraq shown nightly on network news. I think I may send a mass message to the FCC now as well, because I saw something horribly offensive on TV too- Mr. Bush's surge speech.
lessee if it gets printed in the paper or online.
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