SUPREME COURT RULES AGAINST “FLEETING EXPLETIVES”

WASHINGTON (AP) — Bono, Cher and Nicole Richie will have to watch their mouths on TV from now on. The Supreme Court has upheld a government policy that threatens broadcasters with fines over the use of even a single curse word on broadcast television. But the high court declared a lower court might consider whether the Federal Communications Commission’s policy of “fleeting expletives” is unconstitutional. In each instance, the F-word was the expletive in question. Justice Antonin Scalia even got in a dig on Cher and Richie, calling them “foul-mouthed glitteratae from Hollywood.”