Across the Ist-a-Verse
The Daily News reports that Chase Utley has apologized for dropping an F-bomb at last night's All-Star Home Run Derby. The obscenity was caught by the ESPN microphone Utley was wearing as he took the field, an apparent response to the cacophony of boos that met the second baseman when he was introduced.
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The FCC just controls the content of broadcast TV, not cable. Duh.
Knowing the FCC, they'll find a way to fine the broadcast anyway.
The FCC doesn't control the content of anything. They just have the authority to impose fines for improperly-broadcast "indecent" material on broadcast television.
And periodically, the issue of whether the FCC will seek to regulate cable & satellite TV, and satellite radio, bubbles up to the surface.