I was just reading this article on Salon.com about the fight over “indecency” in the media. If you don’t feel like sitting through the ad to get your free day-pass to Salon, the gist of the story is that media activists who banded together with conservative groups to fight the FCC’s moves to allow greater media consolidation are now surprised to find those same groups turning against them when it comes to opposing increased indecency regulation.
I don’t find this change at all surprising, given that conservative groups’ main reason for opposing media consolidation was that they feared it would give media companies even greater power to pour their evil filth into the eyes and ears of the God-fearing American public.