{"id":829,"date":"2004-04-02T03:41:11","date_gmt":"2004-04-02T08:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/04\/spongeworthy\/"},"modified":"2004-04-02T03:41:11","modified_gmt":"2004-04-02T08:41:11","slug":"spongeworthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/04\/spongeworthy\/","title":{"rendered":"Spongeworthy"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/news\/articles\/0401sponge-ON.html\">Contraceptive Sponge to Return to U.S. Market?<\/a>&#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This, of course, hearkens back to a classic <i>Seinfled<\/i> episode.<br \/>\nThe unfortunately thing is that if the FCC continues on its warpath, such topics will soon be taboo.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washtimes.com\/business\/20040401-104949-2841r.htm\">FCC Leader to Stay Tuned to Racy Soaps<\/a>&#8221;<br \/>\nSoap operas have become a potential target in the Federal Communications Commission&#8217;s crackdown on broadcast indecency, according to a key official who said the programs might be too &#8220;steamy&#8221; for daytime television.<br \/>\nMichael J. Copps, the FCC commissioner who has led the agency&#8217;s campaign against adult-oriented radio programs, told reporters Wednesday that the FCC should review whether soap operas violate the agency&#8217;s indecency prohibitions, according to <i>Television Week<\/i>, an industry trade publication.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Our regulators are becoming awfully busy these days, aren&#8217;t they?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/04\/spongeworthy\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Spongeworthy\"><p>&#8220;Contraceptive Sponge to Return to U.S. Market?&#8220; This, of course, hearkens back to a classic Seinfled episode. The unfortunately thing is that if the FCC continues on its warpath, such topics will soon be taboo. &#8220;FCC Leader to Stay Tuned to Racy Soaps&#8221; Soap operas have become a potential target in the Federal Communications Commission&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-829","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}