{"id":30238,"date":"2012-01-11T03:00:05","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T03:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/indecency_on_tv_supreme_court_reluctant_to_ease_profanity_rules\/"},"modified":"2012-01-11T03:00:05","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T03:00:05","slug":"indecency_on_tv_supreme_court_reluctant_to_ease_profanity_rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30238","title":{"rendered":"Indecency on TV: Supreme Court reluctant to ease profanity rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court seemed reluctant Tuesday  to end the government\u2019s historic policing of the broadcast airwaves and to strike down the \u201cindecency\u201d\u009d rules that guide prime-time TV shows.<\/p>\n<p>Broadcasters use the public airwaves, and the \u201cgovernment can insist on a certain modicum of decency,\u201d\u009d said Justice Antonin Scalia during oral arguments on the constitutionality of a ban on four-letter words and nudity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll we are asking for is for a few channels\u201d\u009d where parents can be confident their children will not hear profanity or see sex scenes, said Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., who is a parent of two young children.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/nationnow\/2012\/01\/indecency-tv-supreme-court-fcc.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court seemed reluctant Tuesday to end the government\u2019s historic policing of the broadcast airwaves and to strike down the \u201cindecency\u201d\u009d rules that guide prime-time TV shows. Broadcasters use the public airwaves, and the \u201cgovernment can insist on a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30238\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,168,114,93,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-movies-television","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}