TAKE ACTION
- Listen Up. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) states it is unlawful to broadcast indecent content between the hours of 6 AM and 10 PM. Indecency is defined as depicting or describing sexually explicit or excretory activities. However, the number three most played song on radio in 2003 was a song called, "Get Low". The songs chorus -- skeet,skeet, skeet -- means to ejaculate. It received over 200,000 spins, across radio formats reaching over 500 million listeners. However, no broadcast stations or networks have been fined.
- Public airwaves should reflect the interests of the public they serve. Send a message to broadcasters and hold them accountable. The first step is to learn how to file a formal complaint. A formal compliant must be filed with the FCC. Just Calling the radio station, broadcast network or confronting the on-air talent is not the way to get their attention. The proper protocol is to file a complaint with the FCC. Let's take back our airwaves. Industry Ears has simplified the process with an electronic form.
Be heard and File a Secure Complaint NOW!
Indecency Complaint for Radio
Indecency Complaint for Television
Support the Re-instatement of the Fairness Doctrine
- Encourage your elected officials to co-sponsor Rep. Slaughter's MEDIA Act to reinstate the Fairness Doctrine. (Find all your elected officials - local, state, and federal by entering your zip code).
What is the Fairness Doctrine?
- Is history doomed to repeat itself without the Fairness Doctrine? Read how the public took back their airwaves after a racist NBC affiliate owner decided to reflect his personal views of black people on television. The Civil Rights Case that Transformed Television.
Become a Media Justice Advocate
- Support low-power community radio stations.
- Don't turn the channel. Find out what young people are watching. We all have a responsibility to protect children.
- Educate yourself, become media literate. Media Justice Report.
- Understand media issues from definitions to policies - Free Press.
- Translate the lyrics. What is the music saying?
