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There are rules of taste and decency on TV. There are also legal requirements to be followed. In order to enforce these, governments set up media watchdogs. People (more often than not Moral Guardians) complain about a program, the body looks at it and rules whether their complaints are justified. The current UK record for most complaints (over 39,000) about a TV program is held by Celebrity Big Brother, due to the bullying and possible racial abuse directed at eventual winner Shilpa Shetty. Getting Crap Past the Radar is the art of outsmarting the Media Watchdogs. See also: Executive Meddling.

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  • There are rules of taste and decency on TV. There are also legal requirements to be followed. In order to enforce these, governments set up media watchdogs. People (more often than not Moral Guardians) complain about a program, the body looks at it and rules whether their complaints are justified. The current UK record for most complaints (over 39,000) about a TV program is held by Celebrity Big Brother, due to the bullying and possible racial abuse directed at eventual winner Shilpa Shetty. Getting Crap Past the Radar is the art of outsmarting the Media Watchdogs. See also: Executive Meddling.
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  • There are rules of taste and decency on TV. There are also legal requirements to be followed. In order to enforce these, governments set up media watchdogs. People (more often than not Moral Guardians) complain about a program, the body looks at it and rules whether their complaints are justified. The current UK record for most complaints (over 39,000) about a TV program is held by Celebrity Big Brother, due to the bullying and possible racial abuse directed at eventual winner Shilpa Shetty. The US version is the Federal Communications Commission, while the latest name for the UK television one is Ofcom (in addition there is the ASA for adverts and the voluntary PCC for print media). Many stations (in the US, at least) also have their own self-regulating "Standards and Practices" department (commonly known as "the network censors"). In Japan, the relevant body is the Eiga Rinri Kanri Iinkai, or Motion Picture Code of Ethics Committee (colloquially abbreviated as "Eirin;" don't ask it for help). These Media Watchdogs are frequently subjected to Double Standards. In the U.S, sex and nudity, no matter how mild, will be censored and critisized to hell, even though huge and over-the-top violence is left alone. In Europe, the opposite (and yet, similar) Double Standard happens: sex and nudity can be found easily, but any violence is censored to hell. Getting Crap Past the Radar is the art of outsmarting the Media Watchdogs. See also: Executive Meddling. Examples of Media Watchdog include:
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