Topic: Standards and Practices

Here's a Hilariously Grotesque Email from Network Standards & Practices

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Every broadcast network has a Standards & Practices department. They're the fussy worrywarts who stringently enforce FCC rules about indecency — sexy stuff, swears, maybe violence. Basically they regulate all the fun stuff. But just how specific and needling are they?

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