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Industry Lobby Decries Broadcast Decency Standards.

By Chris Jones, Las Vegas Review-Journal Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Apr. 20--Should a character such as Tony Soprano be free to use the f-word with abandon during for-pay television broadcasts?

Only if the word in question is "fuhgetaboutit," members of a six-man U.S. congressional panel argued Monday at the National Association of Broadcasters 2004 convention in Las Vegas.

In the aftermath of this year's ongoing broadcast decency debate, many in Washington are intent on carrying broadcast-level decency standards to subscriber-based

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