Saturday, December 11

indecent greeks

We've been speaking of the FCC of late, and an issue in the comments section has been indecency.

Apparently, now, the FCC is reviewing tapes of the opening ceremony of this summer's Olympics- in response to indecency complaints. A bunch of webloggers are flipping their lids on this- so in order to throw a bit of water on the flames: this is an automatic response by the FCC. If people complain, the FCC takes a look. Most likely, the FCC will find no actionable indecency. While I disagree with the complaint lodgers, there's lots of people in the tv watching world, with many a trigger for complaint.

We can reflect, though: what do we think is indecent? I'm guessing the complaints toward the Olympics concern the bare bodies, frolicking lovers, or pregnant woman in the pond. There certainly were sexual themes; but, I would venture, a vast majority of viewers saw this as artistic rather than indecent. Do we come, then, to a what-makes-it-art-rather-than-porn question?

I'm being open ended because I want some comments on this one. Largely, am I right that most of us saw no indecency? And 2) does it having been artistic, or tasteful, have something to do with this?