Investigate This

On NBC's live New Year's Eve broadcast, Motley Crue's Vince Neil apparently used the F-word. (By the time it was shown out here in LA, it had been bleeped.) The FCC said it's beginning an investigation. Exactly what is there to investigate? You watch the tape, boom, investigation over.

There was purportedly a complaint or two, while the millions of others who watched either approved or said nothing. But a complaint or two is enough these days. I think it's long overdue we drop the legal fiction that "the public" owns the airwaves. The government owns the airwaves, and regulates them through the FCC. I think this is unconstitutional but, alas, the Supreme Court disagrees.