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The "One Question" feature at I Want Media asked Marty Kaplan of Air America and the USC Annenberg School to define "broadcast indecency." His answer:
"Indecency is the right wing attempting to redefine dissent as unpatriotic. It's corporate chieftains being shocked that their profit centers depend on sleaze, violence and humiliation. It's audiences complaining about the content they keep lapping up. It's regulators exempting media from their public interest obligations. It's pornographers hiding behind the First Amendment. It's grandstanding politicians going after artists and intellectuals. It's 11-year-olds' favorite way to taunt their parents. It's nothing that any of us hasn't heard before."