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JEFFREY BROWN (Newshour): Cher, Nicole Richie, "Saving Private Ryan," and the PBS documentary "The Blues," what do they all have in common? Well, they have been on broadcast television, where they have used or included profanity, and they're all now part of a constitutional debate over federal regulation of indecency in a case argued before the Supreme Court today.
COMMENT: This video contains very good arguments on the subject, especially since it applies ONLY to public broadcast TV (not cable or satellite).
On the subject of nudity, I have always wondered why we in the U.S. are so constricted. When I was young (long, long ago, in a galaxy far away) I had access to books (incl school books) and magazines (like National Geographic) that had articles on other societies where women went in public with bare breasts and adolescents were nude. I thought nothing of it.
Almost any parent has had the experience of chasing their nude child around the house. Young children have no problem with nudity as being somehow wrong. The truth is we LEARN that nudity is "wrong" from the society we live in, it is NOT natural state of things.
Another excerpt
MARCIA COYLE, The National Law Journal: ABC was a challenge here, because it found that -- the FCC found that it violated the policy because of a 2003 episode of "NYPD Blue" in which a nude woman was shown from the rear entering a shower.
In the above case, why should seeing a nude woman "from the rear" NOT be shown on public broadcast TV? This is a question our society needs to ask.
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