“On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in FCC v. Fox Television Stations, the networks’ challenge to the FCC’s current indecency regime. Broadcasters not only want the high court to throw out the FCC’s W-era hardline on so-called fleeting expletives and images, sanctions for a stray f-bomb or shot of a woman’s behind, but to reconsider the landmark 1978 Pacifica decision that upheld the FCC’s authority to regulate indecent content on the airwaves.”
Tag: 01.06.12
Documents Reveal: JR Tolkien Denied Nobel Because of “Bad Story-Telling”
According to Nobel Prize documents released after 50 years, one of the jury members, Anders Osterling, said that the work “has not in any way measured up to storytelling of the highest quality”.
Gender Confusion – Cable Companies, Channels And Video Providers
“Netflix isn’t a cable company; Netflix is a video channel, with aspirations to become a first-rate video channel at the level of HBO, if they’re not there already. And HBO badly wants Netflix to stay out of that business. In fact, HBO would have no particular problem watching Netflix bleed to death, just on general principle.”
Bosnia’s Cultural Institutions Shut Down In Funding Crisis
This week, the Historical Museum closed and the National Gallery shut its doors early in the autumn.
Fire Dancing On The Rooftops Of Brooklyn
Fire poi dancing – the poi are “large, bulbous wicks attached to lengthy metal springs, resembling tennis balls on ropes. Flaming ones” – became popular at the Burning Man festival and is spreading through the US. In Brooklyn, there are lessons – clandestine, because of fire codes – on apartment building roofs.