PTC Files FCC Complaint Against 'Top Model'

The Parents Television Council has filed an indecency complaint over CW’s America’s Next Top Model for showing a nude model and is encouraging its members to file complaints with the Federal Communications Commission. The episode showed a model posing fully nude for photographs while lying on a bed. PTC said “the nudity was partially blurred.” PTC President Tim Winter said: “It is irresponsible for the CW Network to air full frontal nudity on the public airwaves at 8 p.m., and based upon our analysis of the broadcast in question we believe this has crossed the legal threshold for broadcast indecency. This episode portrays a photo-shoot where the model is entirely naked; and the nudity includes the model’s pubic region in full view, albeit slightly blurred. This is not simply a matter of artistic freedom, as some might claim. Rather, this is about a television network intentionally pushing the envelope to establish a new acceptable nudity standard for the broadcast medium. The entire photo shoot scene, which lasted for more than a minute, is wholly gratuitous and undoubtedly intended to titillate."
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* PTC Files Indecency Complaint Against CW
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