The decency war

The Super Bowl is this week, and with Paul McCartney as the Half Time act, I am praying that there is no wardrobe malfuction, simply because I like Mr. MCatrney and don't want to see how he looks shirtless and old.

Mark Evanier pointed out
The New York Times > Arts > this article by Frank Rich who lays all of the blame on certain religious and political groups for all of the decency complaints...

But I think they are missing the point.

There is another legal action brought by Fox, Time/Warner and the other major media owners asking the Supreme Court to dissolve the FCC, or at least get rid of its ability to regulate them. They claim in their brief that the fines being imposed by the FCC are detrimental to their business, and have no precedent in the Constitution (leaning on the First Amendment for most of their legal precedent). Since the FCC's OTHER big thing they were trying to do over the past four years is get rid of all controls on media ownership, it looks like more consolidation and less control to me.

And with the fines being imposed more often, and in bigger amounts, they might have a case.

So, while it may work against the Republican Party's religious base, it works for their corporate base...and we all know which side has more money, now don't we?