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Justices Take Up On-Air Vulgarity Again

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The issue of vulgar speech on the nation’s regulated airwaves, a flash point for decades, reached the Supreme Court again on Monday. The justices agreed to give the Federal Communications Commission a chance to defend its decision to start punishing broadcasters for the isolated and fleeting on-air use of expletives, an abrupt change in the commission policy that a federal appeals court last year found procedurally improper. (New York Times [1], Tuesday)

Freedom of speech means freedom of speech.

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Broadcasting, Property Rights, and the First Amendment [2] by Gordon T. Anderson

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[1] New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/18/washington/18scotus.html?ex=1363579200amp;en=666e6482af1baef4amp;ei=5088amp;partner=rssnytamp;emc=rss

[2] Broadcasting, Property Rights, and the First Amendment: http://www.fee.org/publications/the-freeman/article.asp?aid=1582

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