What's up with that? America's new crackdown on supposed indecency in the media. Howard Stern has already been yanked from the air in six major markets by that "oh so lovable" corporate giant Clear Channel and is now facing major fines. Infinity Broadcasting, who produces the Stern show, is in jeopardy of losing their radio license.

Instead of usually pushing the envelope, MTV has banned 7 videos from it's regular rotation within the past two weeks. Videos that were already playing before the Superbowl. Most of the videos got a quick re-edit to remove any "offensive" material and were thrown back in to late night rotation. Incubus' video for Megalomaniac was banned cause it contains images of Hitler and images that can be misconstrued as anti-American. Blink 182's new video Miss You was banned for some lesbian kissing scenes, something which the girl group TAtu nearly perfected on the MTV Video Music Awards two years ago when they brought 100 teenage girls on stage in Catholic Schoolgirl outfits, stripped down to their undies and then had a big lesbo group kiss. No outrage over that though.

Major networks have been editing regular programming left and right as well as pulling special programming off the air in light of the recent self imposed FCC crackdown. In an election year where the incumbent president is facing losing voters on some of the major issues right now, this doesn't really surprise me. Especially when the largest segment of the voting populous and Bush's "bread and butter", the Christian right, is the group promoting this unnecessary crackdown. Looks like were taking another step back down the social ladder. Cause you know, that whole freedom of speech thing only applies when "we" want it to. Leave it to us to get so flipped out over a titty that we start shaking the very foundations of our society.

- these thoughts flowed through Jeff's fingers @ 11:36 AM