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  This organization is really doing excellent work to help clean up the shocking filth and horrible violence on TV. I encourage you to support them as I have. CBS Crosses Indecency Line AGAIN! The CBS-TV network seems to have learned nothing from the record-breaking $3.5 million fine its parent company - media giant Viacom - was assessed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to settle most of the pending broadcast indecency complaints against its radio and TV properties. CBS needs to be hauled before the FCC again - and severely fined again - for the February 17 episode of "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation", which exposed millions of viewers to explicit scenes of patently offensive sexual and excretory functions. We need your help. If you agree that this broadcast violates your community standards, we need you to help flood the FCC with formal Indecency Complaints about this outrageous material. That "CSI" episode featured scenes of perversion so gross, so disturbing, that it stunned even the media analysts here at the Parents Television Council, who view and analyze every minute of prime-time entertainment programming on every broadcast network. They see it all. And this "CSI" episode was one of the most shocking broadcasts they have ever seen. Viacom and CBS must be taught a lesson. Because despite that huge $3.5 million fine for indecency that Viacom has already agreed to pay... AND despite the $550,000 additional fine still pending against CBS stations for the notorious Janet Jackson incident at last year's Super Bowl... AND despite Viacom admitting, in its settlement with the FCC, that some of the material it broadcast was indeed indecent, and promising to implement a company-wide compliance plan aimed at preventing further indecency violations... ...despite all that, CBS is still fouling the publicly-owned airwaves with filth calculated to upset any normal adult... let alone any children who saw it. And since that "CSI" episode - broadcast at 9 pm on the East and West coasts, and at 8 pm in the Central and Mountain time zones - was viewed by over 30 million people, you know that MILLIONS of children did see it. We often find ourselves in this quandary: If I quoted and described these "CSI" scenes in detail in this e-mail, I'd risk offending thousands of people. Yet we must provide documentation to the FCC, so we have it available on our PTC web-site. If you have the stomach to review it, you'll be able to do so - even view a video clip of the most deeply sick scene of all, graphically depicting a sexual practice called "infantilism" - when you go to http://www.parentstv.org/ptc/action/CSI/main.asp to sign and submit your Indecency Complaint to the FCC. The PTC will automatically forward your Indecency Complaint to the FCC - and I'm confident yours will be one of many thousands, because any responsible adult who reads our documentation of this horribly upsetting "CSI" episode is going to want to be part of this outpouring of outrage. It's also VERY IMPORTANT that you forward this e-mail to friends, relatives and colleagues in your email address book who share your concern over the foul language, deranged violence and pandering sexual content that is being targeted directly at young people. Hopefully your friends, relatives and colleagues will forward this email as well, and your protest will be multiplied many, many times over! We simply can't let CBS get away with such vile programming content, or it will set a new and unspeakably low standard for all of prime time broadcast TV. To make sure that every possible pressure is brought to bear on CBS, we'll also forward a copy of your Indecency Complaint to the main national SPONSORS of that episode of CSI. When you go to http://www.parentstv.org/ptc/action/CSI/main.asp to sign and submit your Indecency Complaint, you'll see a list of those sponsors, and I think you'll be shocked at the "household name" companies that paid for CBS's disgusting broadcast. These companies must hear from you. They must be reminded that the material they sponsor is a direct reflection of their corporate values. Last year, the PTC and its members hit the FCC with over 230,000 official Indecency Complaints. And we generated many thousands of protests to sponsors for underwriting indecent programming. Because of your support in this campaign, the FCC is finally starting to take a hard look at indecency enforcement, and sponsors are gradually becoming more aware of their responsibility for the content of shows that their billions of advertising dollars are underwriting. But we need to sustain the pressure on the FCC to enforce the law and to punish broadcasters when they break the law. And we need to sustain the pressure on corporate sponsors who underwrite graphic and gratuitous content. And we need to send a loud and clear signal to CBS and its owned and affiliated stations that it will cost them dearly in FCC fines, lost advertising dollars and - possibly - their broadcast licenses themselves, for their part in pushing TV standards into the gutter. Together, with a national grassroots response, we can stem the flow of filth, foul language and sick, ultra-violence on TV. With urgent thanks,