The FCC Needs to Do Something About "José Luis Sin Censura"

We have to ask. Does anyone at the FCC speak Spanish?  

 José Luis Sin Censura (Translation: Jose Luis Uncensored) is a hugely popular Spanish-language talk show that owes its format to Jerry Springer, with host José Luis presiding over nasty brawls among guests and a jeering studio audience hurling jeers. All too often, the guests being physically and verbally abused are gay (or perceived as gay), and the the chanted audience insults are Spanish-language equivalents of "faggot" such as "maricón," "puto" and "puñal."

GLAAD, together with The National Hispanic Media Coalition (NHMC) first appealed to the show's producers to tone down the ugliness. Getting nowhere with that, the two organizations eventually launched an online petition and filed a complaint with the FCC.

The FCC appears to have taken no action and, if anything, Jose Luis Censura now seems emboldened to air even worse misogyny and homophobia. This is a nationally syndicated show, often airing in the afternoons, and it reaches roughly 70% of all Latino households in the United States!

We cannot fathom that this sort of ugliness would be allowed on afternoon broadcast television if it were aired in English.

The video below (compiled by GLAAD) gives you a taste of what this show has been beaming into millions of Hispanic American households:

Today GLAAD submitted a letter to the FCC along with NHMC and 30 other organizations including: the Southern Poverty Law Center, Women’s Media Center, Asian American Justice Center, Bienestar, Equality California, HRC, GLSEN, Latino Equality Alliance, NCLR, PFLAG, the Trevor Project and the United Church of Christ. The letter calls on the FCC to actually do something about Jose Luis Censura.

If you'd like to get involved you can submit your own letter to the FCC via this online tool provided by GLAAD (half way down page).