PBS Feels FCC Chill On Censorship

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PBS Feels FCC Chill On Censorship

Posted by simoniker on Monday July 12, 2004 @06:49AM from the watch-out-for-that-shark dept.

Shadow Wrought writes "The San Francisco Chronicle is reporting on PBS censoring one of its upcoming drama shows, Cop Shop, due to the chilling effect of the most recent FCC rulings on indecency. Star Richard Dreyfuss offered these choice words as part of a prepared statement, 'It is inescapably censorship under guidelines imposed after the fact by those who are in temporary political power, and so it should be treated as what it is -- a real-world moral and ethical battle with grimly wrongheaded, un-American types who play pick and choose when they define our freedoms of speech and religion as it fits their particular political needs.'"

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Re:Here we go .... by YankeeInExile · 2004-07-12 06:52 · Score: 4, Funny

let me trump myself. 5. Profit.

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just so you know by vingilot · 2004-07-12 06:54 · Score: 5, Funny

They wanted to say "Fuck"

Hope that helps.
It takes a brit... by Rei · 2004-07-12 06:54 · Score: 5, Funny

It takes a Brit to say what we feel about this sort of stuff ;)

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To Paraphrase Benjamin Franklin: by RatBastard · 2004-07-12 06:55 · Score: 4, Funny

"Boobs are proof that God exists and want's us to be happy".

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1. Re:To Paraphrase Benjamin Franklin: by Minwee · 2004-07-12 07:00 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  And apo'strophe's exi'st to prove that there i's an 's coming up.
Another Public Broadcasting Landmark Threatened.. by idontgno · 2004-07-12 06:55 · Score: 4, Funny

The upcoming Seasame Street episode brought to you by the letters "F" and "U", and the number "69".
And you should hear Elmo go when you piss him off!

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Whipping 'em out... by panicboy · 2004-07-12 07:00 · Score: 5, Funny

So the fact that they did not choose to speak extemporaneously indicates some sort of behind-the-scenes plan? The President reads prepared statements all the time; he doesn't seem to have a plan.
Re:Netcraft: PBS dieing by LightningBolt! · 2004-07-12 07:08 · Score: 5, Funny

>>Talk about a made up controversy.

>Why not - look what it did for Michael Moore.

Yeah, the war in Iraq wasn't at all controversial until Michael Moore came along.

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Re:BBC reporting about Dick Cheney by RatBastard · 2004-07-12 07:12 · Score: 5, Funny

Because you lot (I'm assuming you're a Brit due to the BBC link, and I apologize if I am wrong) sent all of the Puritans over here in the 1600's. Thanks heaps. It's been a pantload of fun dealing with the screwed up morality they've left us.

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Re:Here we go .... by sploo22 · 2004-07-12 07:16 · Score: 4, Funny

So a three-month-old baby has a chance of accidentally conceiving each time it breastfeeds? Wow, you learn something new every day.

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Re:Here we go .... by Luigi30 · 2004-07-12 07:33 · Score: 4, Funny

Or better:

[with everyone in Bart's class there, and many adults]

Mrs. Lovejoy: "Don't talk about S-E-X in front of the C-H-I-L-D-R-E-N!"

Krusty: "Sex Cauldron!? I thought that place closed down!"

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Re:Here we go .... by Martin+Wolf · 2004-07-12 09:03 · Score: 5, Funny

Those other countries mostly don't call themselves "The Land of the Free".