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PBS Feels FCC Chill On Censorship
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.'"
Way to go. Can't wait to see what wacky stuff the second term of his presidency brings about.
Fun hijinks for all!
I was drawing the comparison between those that lack a moral compass and those that don't.
Those with a moral compass find it easy to distinguish between sex for pornography's sake, nude art (such as the statue of David), and medical books. I can tell you right now that I don't have a problem with the nude child-like angels in various pieces of rennaissance art. I also believe that sex is only appropriate within the bounds of legal marriage between a man and a woman.
Those without a moral compass try to confuse the lines between art and pornography.
The radical sect of Islam would either see you dead or "reverted" to Islam.
Maybe it's because he resembles the average geek - overweight, out of shape, scruffy appearance, thinks because he's intelligent that he knows everything about everything.
Gamingmuseum.com: Give your 3D accelerator a rest.
This is the kind of well-reasoned, thoughtful and clearly written comment that should be getting top ratings. Why would this languish as a 2 while comments like "this sucks... bush is a nazi... and michael moore rulz" get all the mod points??
"Somebody has to do something. It's just incredibly pathetic it has to be us."
--- Jerry Garcia
Really?
/., apparently.
I did eight years in Federal prison for trying to stand up to the oppressors.
Now I'm waiting for the technology to do it right.
And yes, this IS Nazi Germany. Only the helmets have changed.
Oh, wait... Seen a US helmet lately?
The amusing and instructive part is how much the Israelis - the ones constantly hawking the Holocaust - are the behind this crap. The Zionists learned from the Nazis big time. Oh, wait, there were Zionists BEFORE Hitler. Never mind.
It's the morons who not only don't have the nerve to stand up to the oppressors but who actually support the oppressors who are truly disgusting.
Many of them post on
Richard Steven Hack - This sig is TOO GODDAMN SHORT TO DO ANYTHING USEFUL WITH! MORONS!
?Do you think that there should be publicly broadcast pornography? Or publicly broadcast videos showing how to make bombs? "
YES, MORON!
What part of FREE SPEECH don't you comprehend?
And don't quote me some Supreme Court crap about "unprotected speech". That was bullshit when they said it and it's bullshit now.
And there is NO SUCH THING as "decency". That is just a cover word for "I don't like your opinion so I'm going to coerce you into not saying it."
You want "indecency"? How about lying about WMDs in Iraq so you can get thousands of people killed so your cronies can make money? How about ALLOWING (and perhaps even planning) an attack in New York that killed three thousand people so you can justify your "pre-emptive" aggression against other countries for your oil buddies? How about making fun of someone you had put to death in an execution?
No, you got a problem with Bill Clinton getting a blowjob, but wholesale death and destruction is no problem.
Go suck Ashcroft's dick, clown.
Richard Steven Hack - This sig is TOO GODDAMN SHORT TO DO ANYTHING USEFUL WITH! MORONS!
Conservatives are in the majority.
Right, thats why more people voted for Bush in 2000.
Oh, wait....
The governemnt should be planning to ENSURE that that there is no way for terrorists to interfere with the elections.
But instead, we see them desperately looking for any excuse to DELAY the elections. Not very courageous, and not very "bring it on" either.
This Bush Cheney administration is actually very COWARDLY.
Anti-Semite!
Don't listen to this guy! Lies lies lies lies lies!
Jews are always victims! We never do anything wrong! Ignore the man behind the curtain!
Burn in Hell, if you don't support Israel!
Americans: you must give us billions and BILLIONS of your dollars, and DON'T ASK QUESTIONS, STUPID!
Anti-Semite! Anti-Semite!
BLAH.
Blah. Blah-blah-blah...
Translation: PBS doesn't present conservative dogma as fact, or use their buzzwords like "big government". When PBS discusses a topic, they try to get guests on all sides of an issue, as opposed to Fox News, who's idea of "balanced" is a right wing guest paired with a extreme right wing guest. Other networks like CNN can't have a liberal guest without giving a conservative one equal or greater air time, while right wing pundits get their own shows all to themselves.
I would argue that there are more people right of center in America than left.
- Translation: the definition of a necon is a person without:
That's what PBS has been doing with a liberal tinged, elitist view.- reason/logic/common sense
- consistency
- worry when facts contradict them
- a care that they are complete hypocrites
Therefore, like the good little neocon that I am, I ignore the fact that Gore got hundreds of thousands more votes than Bush did in 2000.Translation: anyone that doesn't pander to our moronic, paranoid theories must be liberal and elitist.
and have always been openly supportive of the Labor Party, but never waste an opportunity to stick it to the Tories.
Translation: I hate facts, remember? Therefore I'm going to ignore the fact that the BBC ruthlessly went afer Blair over the war in Iraq, especially the accusations that the government "sexed up" intelligence information. This is entirely consistent with our selective method of counting "bias" in the media: only coverage of liberal viewpoints or unfavorable coverage of conservatives is counted, and never the other way around. So the NYTimes is flaming liberal for carrying Maureen Dowd and Bob Herbert, but we'll ignore the fact that they also publish editorials from conservative hawks like David Brooks and William Safire.
left-slanted news
Translation: I'm going to blindly parrot the myth that there's a "biased liberal media", which doesn't exist, and never has.
Had they tried to be, ahem, fair and balanced, they might have a bigger audience and more public support. Instead, they've made dedicated enemies that want to wipe them out.
Translation: we neocons are fucking hypocritical bastards. Its fine for right wing media to be as partisan and full of vitrol as they want, but anyone who presents a centrist viewpoint, much less a liberal one is our mortal enemy. That, and I'm so full of shit, that I can't even name a source of media that has less bias than PBS or the related NPR.
Why write long paragraphs when a short statement can accomplish the same thing? This isn't grade school English class. :)