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American Music Awards
Assaults Viewers with
Simulated Sex Acts, S&M
Themes, and Non-Stop
Expletives
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Take Action now by contacting ABC, Dick Clark
Productions, the FCC and sponsors of last night’s
American Music Awards and tell them that you don’t want
this kind of content coming into your home! |
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Last night’s broadcast of
the American Music Awards on ABC was a both-barrels
assault on decency. While the costumes and profanity
throughout the broadcast were enough to alarm any
reasonable parent, the final performance by Adam Lambert
of American Idol fame included everything from S&M
bondage with the singer leading leather-clad male
performers around on leashes to another dancer
simulating oral sex on Lambert. The show aired live
at 8 pm ET/7 pm CT and was given a TV-14 L rating.
Fortunately, the oral sex scene was edited out of the
West Coast broadcast.
If you want to judge for yourself whether this
content crossed a line, click here
to view the video, but please don’t watch if
there are children in the room or if you think you’ll be
offended.
If you agree that ABC and Dick Clark Productions should
never have allowed this performance to air, take a
moment right now to contact ABC, Dick Clark Productions
and the sponsors of last night’s broadcast and tell them
that you don’t want this kind of content coming into
your home!
Finally, if you live in the CENTRAL time zone – where
this incident aired outside of the “safe harbor” and if
you feel that the performance violated your community’s
standards of decency, click here now to file an official complaint with
the Federal Communications Commission. If you DON’T live
in the Central time zone, we urge you to forward this
e-mail to friends or family who do and who care about
protecting children from inappropriate material and urge
them to get involved.
The networks should know by now that they have to
exercise extreme caution in broadcasting live events,
particularly awards shows. It was during the Billboard
Music Awards that Cher uttered the F-word unedited, and
a year later on the same program that Nicole Richie
uttered the F- and S-words unedited. It was during the
Golden Globes that Bono uttered the F-word unedited. But
instead ABC chose to bury its head in the sand, ignoring
all of the warning signs, including Adam Lambert’s
declaration before the program aired that his “very
sexy” performance would include leather and chains!
It is outrageous that children today cannot watch a
televised awards program based on an industry that is
built on their backs. Teens comprise a huge portion of
music sales and this is how they are treated? Teens –
especially girls – are under siege and it is beyond
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LETTER TO ABC AND DICK CLARK PRODUCTIONS
Dear Sir or Madam:
For years, the American Music Awards was a wholesome alternative to other trashy awards shows that used cheap gimmicks and sleazy, tabloid-baiting stunts to build a following. The AMAs were different, focusing instead on talent and love of music, so, like many Americans, I felt comfortable watching with my family. No longer. Last night ABC and Dick Clark Productions forever tarnished their hard-earned brands and violated the established trust of millions of parents by allowing S&M and bondage themes and explicit simulated oral sex to be broadcast into our homes, through our publicly-owned broadcast airwaves.
You should know by now that you need to exercise extreme caution in broadcasting live events, particularly awards shows. It was during the Billboard Music Awards that Cher uttered the F-word unedited, and a year later on the same program that Nicole Richie uttered the F- and S-words unedited. It was during the Golden Globes that Bono uttered the F-word unedited. But instead you chose to bury your heads in the sand, ignoring all of the warning signs, including Adam Lambert’s declaration before the program aired that his “very sexy” performance would include leather and chains!
Editing the simulated oral sex out of the West coast feed doesn’t give you a free pass, either. Viewers on the East Coast or in the Central and Mountain time zones should not have been exposed to this content, either. I am contacting sponsors of last night’s broadcast and urging them to request a refund of their advertising dollars if they were unaware that their money helped pay for this performance. You should also know that many Americans have also already filed complaints with the FCC about the content of last night’s AMAs.
It is outrageous that children today cannot watch a televised awards program based on an industry that is built on their backs. Teens comprise a huge portion of music sales and this is how they are treated? Teens – especially girls – are under siege and it is beyond contemptible.
You owe the American people and your sponsors an apology.
Sincerely,
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LETTER TO CHRYSLER, GAP, AND T-MOBILE
Dear Sir or Madam:
This letter is to inform you that your advertising dollars helped pay for S&M/Bondage themes and simulated oral sex on last night’s broadcast of the American Music Awards. You can watch for yourself what your ad dollars helped pay for by clicking here. If you knew, or even suspected that this content was going to appear on ABC’s broadcast, you owe millions of American families an apology for your part in forcing this content into their homes via the broadcast airwaves they own. If not, you deserve to have your advertising dollars refunded to you by ABC for betraying your trust and putting your hard-earned brand identity at risk by associating it with this content.
I am also sending a letter of complaint to ABC and Dick Clark Productions, and the FCC has already received complaints from many Americans questioning whether this content was in violation of broadcast decency laws.
I am eager to know whether or not this is content your company is proud to support with your sponsor dollars.
Sincerely,
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Note: If the links above do
not work please copy and
paste the corresponding URL into your
browser:
https://www.parentstv.org/ptc/action/AMAs/main2.asp
http://www.parentstv.org/PTC/action/AMAs/SponsorLetter.htm
http://www.parentstv.org/PTC/action/AMAs/NetworkLetter.htm
https://www.parentstv.org/ptc/action/AMAs/main.asp
http://www.parentstv.org/PTC/joinus/main.asp?sc=P0000AMAs |
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