Creative Voices Asks Appeals Court to Overturn FCC NYPD Blue Fine

Creative Voices asked the Second Circuit Court of Appeals to do what it did last year in Fox v. FCC: reverse yet another arbitrary and capricious FCC indecency decision that puts creative, challenging, controversial, non-homogenized broadcast television programming at risk. As the Court found in reversing the FCC’s decision in Fox, the Commission’s enforcement of its indecency rules has been vague, arbitrary, insufficiently attuned to the context and quality of the program, and bears no relation to “contemporary community standards,” as the Commission’s own rules require. The FCC’s decision in NYPD Blue suffers from the same flaws and the court should reverse it as well.  More, as well as a copy of the brief, at Center for Creative Voices in Media: News.  Broadcasting & Cable's story is here.