Sleazy Like a FOX

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Dennis says I should blog a news item about the FOX TV network wanting to lower their already questionable standards. Here’s Dennis’ e-mail, exactly as received:

To: Doug Pratt
From: Dennis Rogers
Subject: Fox-y Ladies
Date: Thu 5:49p Dec 21, 2006

Okay, you have to make a blog comment on this. FOX, the preferred media of the Right is calling for more indecency! They are invoking their 1st Amendment rights like the ACLU. I can’t wrap my brain around this. But, this is typical of FOX, of course. If CBS did this, they would be blasting them! The conservative religious right and FOX — the first amendment for more indecency on TV! Maybe you can make sense of it. Fair and balanced? Someone should tell Bill O’Reilly!

Fox seeks overturn of ruling on FCC indecency policy

By Bloomberg News | December 21, 2006

NEW YORK — Fox Television Stations asked an appeals court to throw out the Federal Communications Commission’s broadcast indecency policy, saying it violates broadcasters’ right to free speech.
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Wow, this is great! I was about to go to the trouble of posting all of the Christmas records the Beatles made for their fan club, but I see somebody has already done an excellent job of it. Click here, and be patient with the MP3 downloads.

If you have time for only one of them right now, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND listening to 1967. Wonderful stuff. This is what Magical Mystery Tour should have been.