AFA doesn't like "Las Vegas" either

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AFA Takes Aim At NBC's Vegas
By John Eggerton

The American Family Association, which launched a letter-writing
campaign against NBC’s now-canceled drama Book of Daniel, has taken
aim at the network’s drama, Las Vegas.

The AFA, which several months ago revamped its Web site to make it
easier to fiile FCC complaints, sent out an e-mail alert to members
Friday morning asking them to complain about a scene in the show set
in a Las Vegas strip club.

The e-mail included a clip of the scene showing the sort of bumping
and grinding, though without the actual naughty-bits nudity, that
would be found in a Las Vegas strip club.

The e-mail refers to "several new [FCC] commissioners who have spoken
out about the content of some television programs. They have invited
the public to send them their complaints."

The FCC has only one new commissioner--Deborah Tate--though a second
has been nominated (and two have re-uped, Jonathan Adelstein and
Michael Coppps). The commissiones were in Keller, Tex., Friday, for
their monthly meeting and unavailable for comment at press time.
Nobody was answering the phones at AFA’s Tupelo, Miss., headquarters.

Newly re-appointed commissioner Jonathan Adelstein has asked viewers
to send in content complaints, but that was a call for examples of
unidentified product placements, which Adelstein says he has actually
received examples of.

Tate did weigh in on indecency at the FCC's meeting Friday on video
competition, saying that competition had not solved the content issue.
She talked up tiering and a la carte efforts by cable, but said they
were only first steps.

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The Parents Television Council has led the way in rallying members to
flood the FCC with indecency complaints over shows that offend them.
But in the wake of PTC’s success, AFA has vowed to ramp up its
complaints, including putting calls for action in chuch bulletins.