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PTC Action Alert                                                                         January 15, 2007
Fox Deliberately Displays the "F-Word" During Prime Time Football Game

It used to be that you could sit down and watch an evening football game with your children without fear of them being exposed to inappropriate material. Sadly, that's no longer the case as was proven Saturday night during the Fox broadcast of the NFL playoff game between the New Orleans Saints and the Philadelphia Eagles.

During a cutaway shot to the stadium spectators, the camera focused directly on a woman wearing a t-shirt clearly inscribed with the words "F--k Da Eagles" (without the dashes). The shot stayed focused on the woman and her shirt for several seconds. There can be no doubt that this was an intentional airing of patently offensive language on the public airwaves, as the person wearing the profane t-shirt was culled by Fox Network's broadcast crew from more than 70,000 spectators in the stadium. The camera operator selected that particular woman and the director and/or producers of the event made an affirmative and conscious decision to air the shot from that particular camera, forcing the f-word into millions of homes. Furthermore, the v-chip would not and could not have protected children and families from the type of content evidenced here.

Fans on the East Coast saw this obscenity televised during the Family Hour (8:30 p.m. ET) -- but it aired at 5:30 in the evening on the West Coast

If you believe that a national television broadcast of a football game containing the word "F--k" is patently offensive, then we need you to take action today!! We urgently need your help to send a loud and clear message to broadcasters that their willful violation of the law will not be tolerated. Please go to https://www.parentstv.org/ptc/action/foxfootball/main.asp to file your official complaint with the FCC today.

Broadcasters are legally obligated to act in the public interest and to adhere to decency laws. Time and time again the networks have violated those laws and challenged the right of the public to hold them accountable. To add insult to injury, the Fox network has filed suit in federal court claiming it should have the right to air unlimited offensive language at any time of day - but the law does not give them that right, nor has any court granted it. The FCC should act now to protect the public airwaves from those who are abusing their privilege of using them and enforce broadcast decency law as written.

We need your help today to pressure the FCC to do its job to keep the broadcast airwaves safe for children and put Fox on notice that this flagrant abuse of the public airwaves will not be tolerated.

Please go to https://www.parentstv.org/ptc/action/foxfootball/main.asp right now to file your official complaint with the FCC then forward this message to everyone in your address book. Because our children are watching.

Sincerely,

Tim Winter
President
Parents Television Council

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