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 Support The DrudgeReport; Visit Our Advertisers  KERRY SUPPORTS FCC INDECENCY CRACKDOWN; CITES 'FAMILY TIME' Fri Jun 4, 2004 12:32:11 ET ** Credit Broadcasting and Cable ** In an interview set for broadcast Sunday on C-SPAN, presidential hopeful John Kerry says he supports the current FCC crackdown on television indecency, but comes out against the greater scrutiny of pay cable channels like HBO and Showtime. "I think there is a distinction between public broadcast and the notions we've had historically about family time, family hour -- and what you buy privately and personally." "I am not in favor of government interference and censorship and restriction of what an individual privately can decide to do in their home, in their own space, so to speak," Kerry said, but he did seem to be OK with indecency regulation "where you have children involved, where you have a broader cross-section of the public, where there is sort of a sense of family time or hour." On media concentration: "I wasn't there for the vote, but I was 100% in favor of overturning this rule. "I think that too much media in the hands of one powerful entity or one individual is a mistake. I think it runs counter to the foundation of our country. I think it runs counter to the need for Americans to know what they are getting news and information from multiple sources that are not singularly controlled." On the Janet Jackson Super Bowl 'nipple' incident: "I thought that was in poor taste and wrong -- wrong venue, wrong timing, wrong place, wrong audience. So, there are some standards and pretty generally people should know what they are." Developing... |
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