ABC Affiliates Drop Brief, Moon FCC

摘要

In what could fairly be described as a rhetorical mooning, the ABC Affiliate Association submitted a brief to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals last month filled with cheeky references to various naked backsides-and a raft of arguments as to why the Federal Communications Commission should keep its mitts off them. The parade of posteriors was organized to defend the decency of the one belonging to Charlotte Ross, which appeared for approximately seven seconds of primetime during a February 2003 broadcast of ABC's NYPD Blue, and earned 45 affiliates $1,237,500 in fines. To be sure, the brief presents a wholly serious argument intended to demonstrate the flaws in the FCC's ruling.