From Hollywood Reporter:

WASHINGTON -- ABC's airing of "The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show" is likely to cause the network more than a little discomfort as the federal government has received dozens of complaints that the G-string-laced show and its related promotions violate broadcast indecency rules.

FCC commissioner Michael Copps told reporters Friday that he has received 50 e-mails from different parts of the country complaining about the racy show and its promotions. One of the complaints was of a more personal nature -- Copps' 27-year-old daughter had a complaint about the show.

"She saw it and was upset," Copps said. "She's a new mother, and when her child gets (to a) TV age, he should see wholesome programming."

He said he was forwarding the complaints to the FCC's Enforcement Bureau and asking it to investigate whether it violated indecency regulations.

Dear Mr. Copps:

I wish to thank you for this ruckus that you've raised in regards to ABC's showing of "The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show". Here I was afraid that I wouldn't have anything to talk about in my weekly column--and this falls right in my lap.

First of all, you mention that you've received 50 e-mails in regards to complaints about the airing of this show. That's amazing. With millions of people Net-active in this country, you receive 50 e-mails and you're off on a crusade? You must not be very busy at the FCC. So that makes me wonder exactly what you're doing for the tax dollars of mine that go into your paycheck. We're at war and you and the FCC are worried about G-strings. That's...that's just brilliant.

Second of all, the fact that you brought your daughter into this gets to the root of why the problem is not with ABC, but with you and your daughter and both of your mentalities about the way broadcast television works.

Now, she's a new mother. The child is...less than a year old? That equals "new mother" in my book. And she's concerned that when the child gets to "TV age" (no doubt the age at which a parent can leave the child in front of the set to be 'educated' rather than actually spending any quality time with the little tyke), the child will be subjected to such smut as "Fashion Show." Now--I've seen what the government thinks of as "wholesome programming". The misnomer is that the programming is wholesome when in reality it is merely inoffensive to everyone. That's why you get the bland programming you do from such places at PBS and NPR. Not to say that NPR and PBS don't have enjoyable programming (I listen to NPR often), but honestly--would they exist if not for the tax dollars of myself in my fellow countrymen? Probably not.

If your daughter thinks that TV needs to be safe enough for her five-year-old child in the future to watch--and you concur--then you're not very effective, are you? Because wouldn't it be simpler for your daughter to...I don't know...TURN THE TV OFF rather than subject her will and the will of forty-nine other people with nothing else better to do upon myself and the rest of the American TV-viewing public? Is she that lazy that she can't work the remote? Does it bother anyone else that there is such a thing as "TV age" for kids? And here's another question--that show aired on a Thursday night at 9pm EST. Shouldn't little kids be in bed by nine?

I really think this is an issue you should take up with your daughter and her raising of your grandchild, not with ABC. And as for the other forty-nine emailers, mail them a $50 Amazon gift certificate for books. Maybe they'll forget they own a television and rediscover the world of literacy.

And then you can move onto the complaint that has forty-six people e-mailing you...and so forth. And so on down the line.

Be good.

=Widge