Excessive Labor Disorder
Irritable Eye Syndrome
Jimmy Legs
Sudden Uproar Syndrome
Drill-in-Oral Cavity Phobia
Resentment of Unknown Origin (RUO)
So, let's say, as a conservative estimate, 5 million people watched this show on this particular evening (it's a highly rated show). And let's say that every single person that found the show objectionable, all 4,211 of them, took the time to complain (how many of them actually watched the show, and how many of them complained more than once? - that's another story). That translates to roughly 0.08 percent of the viewers complaining. That's 8 out of every 10,000 people. So these 8 people can dictate what the other 9,992 get to see on television. The end is near my friends. Time to move to another country.
CBS Stations: Sex Fines Without Merit
CBS affiliates filed a motion on Tuesday to have the $3.3 million worth of fines levied against a Dec. 31, 2004, Without a Trace rebroadcast — which, the FCC says, depicted "numerous sexual activities" and "sexual conduct" among teens — tossed out because not one of the 4,211 complaints about the episode came from anyone outside of the websites operated by two conservative advocacy groups: the Parents Television Council and the American Family Association. "Permitting enforcement reliant on a national mass e-mail campaign is akin to permitting the [FCC] to single out programming it dislikes, in the absence of any viewer complaint," argue the affiliates.
