The House of Representatives is debating a bill that would increase fines for "indecent" broadcasts to $325,000 for each incident--a thousand percent jump from the current level, the Associated
Press reports. The election year legislation, which is expected to get White House approval, is one end result of the infamous Janet Jackson breast incident at the 2004 Super Bowl. "It is something
that should have passed two years ago," said L. Brent Bozell, head of a right-wing "media watchdog" group. "The $32,500 fine did not make them think twice about doing anything," counters Jim Dyke,
executive director of TV Watch, a group opposed to government censorship of TV programming: "Asking the government to take on the role of parents is not just bad public policy, it's unnecessary." The
bill has already been passed by the Senate, which is now spending its time debating gay marriage.
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