In April, May, and June of 2002, for instance, only 141 people in the entire country filed an FCC complaint. In the same three months of 2003, 351 people objected. Then, in 2004, something remarkable happened: 272,818 people filed complaints in a single quarter. Had television suddenly started peddling prime-time pornography?
That’s quite the surge! It’s just too bad something so ridiculous affected TV in such a huge way. Surprisingly, I haven’t noticed any of my shows being “cleaned”. I didn’t even notice a difference in the quoted Everybody Loves Raymond, which I usually never missed. Either way, this article is quite interesting, so give it a read.