{"id":14,"date":"2004-03-19T00:38:19","date_gmt":"2004-03-19T00:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.briangreene.com\/bhg\/?p=14"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T23:00:00","slug":"fcc-cites-bono-for-indecency-but-issues-no-fine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/2004\/fcc-cites-bono-for-indecency-but-issues-no-fine\/","title":{"rendered":"FCC cites Bono for indecency but issues no fine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>The FCC received hundreds of complaints about the Golden Globes broadcast after Bono, the lead singer of the Irish rock group U2, said, &#8220;This is really, really, f&#8212;&#8212; brilliant.&#8221;<br \/>The enforcement bureau said last October that Bono&#8217;s comment was not indecent or obscene because he did not use the word to describe a sexual act. &#8220;The performer used the word &#8230; as an adjective or expletive to emphasize an exclamation,&#8221; the bureau said. <br \/>&#8212;<br \/>lets hope Colin Farell doesn&#8217;t win an oscar, but really the US &#038; FCC should get a grip, this once only I would support bono to milk this, and conduct a sponsored F-word reading of a Roddy Doyle book for charity. You can say crap on the radio&#8230;..<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; padding-bottom: 0.25em;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FCC received hundreds of complaints about the Golden Globes broadcast after Bono, the lead singer of the Irish rock group U2, said, &#8220;This is really, really, f&#8212;&#8212; brilliant.&#8221;The enforcement bureau said last October that Bono&#8217;s comment was not indecent or obscene because he did not use the word to describe a sexual act. &#8220;The&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/2004\/fcc-cites-bono-for-indecency-but-issues-no-fine\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">FCC cites Bono for indecency but issues no fine<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}