The Effects of the Super Bowl Halftime Show on the FCC

After the Super Bowl halftime show, there are 540,000 complaints to the FCC. 99 what we find out later is that 99% of those complaints came via the Parents Television Council. This is one of these right wing organizations that figured out in the late 1990s a loophole in the FCC's mandate. Once George W Bush comes in in 2000, the first year of the Bush administration, the FCC gives out $48,000 in fines by 2004. They're giving out 8 million in fines. So the FCC completely transforms during this period into the smut police, right? Yes. And now it's like, you know, being manipulative and having no sense of ethics actually might affect your