MAP President Issues Statement on Supreme Court Indecency Decision
Posted: Tuesday April 28, 2009
Andrew Jay Schwartzman, President and CEO of the Media Access Project (MAP), issued the following statement on today’s Supreme Court decision upholding the FCC’s policy on broadcast indecency:
“Today’s decision is extremely disappointing. We remain hopeful that the FCC’s restrictive policies will ultimately be declared unconstitutional, but there will be several more years of uncertainty, and impaired artistic expression, while the lower courts address the First Amendment issues which the Court chose not to confront today.
“As Justice Breyer’s dissent points out, the chilling effect of the FCC’s new policies are especially severe on smaller independent and public broadcasters. Writers, artists and directors on the front lines of the First Amendment face continuing pressure to err on the side of the blandness.”
MAP represents the Center for Creative Voices in Media (“CCV”) in the litigation. MAP is a 37-year-old non-profit public interest telecommunications law firm. CCV is an organization of writers, producers, actors, authors and other creative professionals who create and provide artistic content for television.
Contact:
Kamilla Kovacs
Development and Communications Manager
Media Access Project
202-454-5685
kkovacs@mediaaccess.org