Parents Television Council files almost all FCC complaints [View All]

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One advocacy group has generated most of the complaints received by the Federal Communications Commission over the past two years, according to figures released by the agency in response to a Freedom of Information Act request.

The FCC said that in 2003, the Parents Television Council was responsible for filing all but 267 of the 202,032 indecency complaints received by the agency, or 99.86 percent.

This year, excluding protests about Janet Jackson's exposed breast during the Super Bowl halftime show, the nonprofit group again filed 99.9 percent of 442,899 complaints to the FCC as of Oct. 7. The Super Bowl incident generated about half a million complaints, 65,000 from the Parents Television Council.

The Parents Television Council was established in 1995 to restore television to "a socially responsible entertainment medium," according to its mission statement. Lara Mahaney, its director of corporate entertainment affairs, said she wasn't surprised that the million-member organization was responsible for the high percentage of complaints...