FCC decides 'Slim Shady' is clean

[Nosak]

The FCC reversed field on Tuesday and canceled a fine that it had levied on a Colorado radio station last year for playing the edited version of Eminem's "The Real Slim Shady." Last June, KKMG-FM in Colorado Springs was notified that one of their listeners filed a complaint in July 2000 after hearing the track. FCC regulators proposed a $7,000 fine, saying that KKMG did not delete explicit sexual references in the song. However, the owner of the station, Citadel Broadcasting Co., contended that the lyrics in the edited version were not graphic enough to be considered offensive under FCC guidelines. Program directors from other stations also confirmed that the version in question was the one played on every urban and top 40 station repeatedly throughout the summer of 2000. Apparently it was enough to convince the FCC. "We disagree with our initial analysis and we now conclude that the material at issue was not patently offensive under contemporary community standards for the broadcast medium," FCC Enforcement Chief David Solomon said in the order that revoked the fine.

[Don Seer]

bet the publicity helped eminem sell more too...  

[Don Rizzle]

wats with the small type?

[Nosak]

my bad i won't do it again except fo quotes  

[Dogg_Pound_Gangsta]

they'll censor eminem but they wont censor that song where that singer says "I'm a BITCH".  she says Bitch about 70 times in that song.