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Ok, show me the enforcement action that was taken against NBC in this case.
by jaywalk 5y ago
Ok, show me the enforcement action that was taken against NBC in this case.
- monocasa 5y agoThere wasn't one. Pretending to mishear the crowd is how you get out of it. That's literally my point.
- jaywalk 5y agoOh yeah, the FCC would have smacked them but since the reporter "pretended to mishear the crowd" their plans were foiled! Do you have any idea how ridiculous that sounds? The reporter has literally zero control over what gets aired aside from the words coming out of her mouth. What she "pretended" to hear couldn't be less relevant.
- monocasa 5y agoThe reporter knows that a long chant repeating the word fuck makes an interview unairable unless they have some semblance of cover. It's literally their job to produce raw footage that can be aired. 'Not hearing' the profanity has absolutely worked before for getting out of fines. The FCC is a giant bureaucracy and can be sort of hacked that way if there's regulatory 'case law' like there exists for this situation. I agree it's not full proof, which is why I think the production staff if anything went out of their way to broadcast "fuck joe biden", contrary to the discourse on the matter.