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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled narrowly in favor of the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday in the agency’s efforts to punish television broadcasters for airing dirty words. But the court’s opinion guaranteed that the issue of obscenity in the age of modern communications would be revisited.
In a splintered 5-to-4 ruling, the court found in favor of the F.C.C. and against Fox Television Stations and the other network broadcasters in a controversy over “fleeting expletives,” or more or less spontaneous utterances on television of four-letter words that once upon a time were supposedly forbidden in polite, educated society.
The ruling overturned a June 2007 ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in Manhattan. That court had struck down a federal government policy that had grown more aggressive under President George W. Bush to fine stations and networks that broadcast shows containing obscene language.
via Supreme Court Backs F.C.C. on Indecency Rule – NYTimes.com.
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