Friday, September 23, 2011
Parents Television Council Files FCC Indecency Complaint Against ?X Factor?
Wasn’t hard to see this one coming: The Parents Television Council says that it will complain to the FCC that Fox’s�The X Factor violated the broadcast decency rules on Wednesday. The group says that the program, rated�TV-PG DL, showed a contestant, Geo Godley,��”dropping his pants and exposing himself during a song and dance routine.” The performance took place shortly after 8:00 PM in the Central and Mountain Time zones, when PTC says indecent content is prohibited on broadcast television. ?The prolonged, previously videotaped footage of a contestant dancing nude on the X Factor stage represents a conscious decision by the producers ? with the approval of the network?s broadcast standards department ? to intentionally air this content in front of millions of families during hours when they knew full well that children would be watching,” PTC President Tim Winters says.�� He added that “If Godley performed his act in public, he would have been arrested. But if he performs it in front of a Fox camera, his act is beamed via the public airwaves into every home in the nation.” X Factor judge Paula Abdul called the performance “shocking and disgusting” while L.A. Reid described it as “offensive, disgusting, distasteful and upsetting.”
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