Is indecent vocabulary blamable or not? Who decides it? The FCC regulators say that during Cher’s speech at a televised awards show, she used indecent words. And it seems that Andy Sipowicz from NYPD Blue also used indecent words, but when the movie Saving Private Ryan appeared, the same regulators said that the indecent vocabulary was allowed because it contributed to the realism of the show.

An U.S. Court called the FCC to explain why such a distinction. The same court agreed to the FCC when it banned Fox Television Stations because they aired Cher’s speech, but the same agency seems to have failed in explaining why they agreed not to ban Saving Private Ryan standing on the same issue.

One of the most important cases of this term will be on Tuesday when the FCC will explain in court their reasons, because the audience will be very influenced about their decisions to ban or not to ban indecent words. Televisions like Fox or NBC stated that the agency has interfered too much in this issue and has fought against free-speech rights.

Carter Philips, lawyer for Fox Television, stated that this attitude from FCC could really hurt airing live entertainment and sports broadcasts. "On pain of fines of $325,000 per incident, radio and television stations across the nation are now forced by the FCC's fleeting-expletives policy to engage in expensive monitoring and policing of live broadcasts,” a statement released by California Broadcasters Association said.

The FCC is backed by the Parents Television Council, which supports the agency in its decisions of banning indecent vocabulary. Robert Sparks from PTC said that all that FCC had done was to ban a speech which was aired at an hour that Fox Television knew it would be watched by children.