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FCC Looks Into Regulating Violence on TV
The Importance of writes "The FCC's regulation of indecent and profane speech has gotten a lot of attention recently. Now, the FCC is considering getting into the business of regulating violence on television (broadcast and cable/satellite). This isn't unexpected, because the House Commerce Committee ordered the FCC to conduct the study. Notice of Inquiry [PDF] [TXT]. Somehow, I don't think the FCC is going to tell Congress there is nothing they can do about violence on TV."
There is no need for regulation of any kind of programming by the state.
Not porn, not violence, not snuff films, not commercials, nothing.
Children are not "harmed" by any of this crap. They are harmed by moronic primate parents who can't explain reality to them because neither THEIR parents nor the educational system in this pathetic country ever explained it to them. Period. And that's the way the government and the religious and educational and corporate institutions in this country like it.
You want regulation of violence? Learn to shoot politicians without hitting anyone else.
Richard Steven Hack - This sig is TOO GODDAMN SHORT TO DO ANYTHING USEFUL WITH! MORONS!
Yeah, those daily Pentagon press conferences were so hard to catch. The story "broke" way back in January.
What you were impressed with is the photographs CBS showed many months later. Without context, a snapshot is worth ten thousand words of propaganda!
Just look how completely you bought the hype.
War is heartless. I consider it the duty of the press to make that reality known. People die. Many people. Families are left broken and in pain. But if the government doesn't have to tell us that, why would it?
Because everybody already knows this?
Except imbeciles who must constantly remind themselves and others that guts blood and mud cast an awesome reek. These imbeciles, soi-disant "liberals" who are consistently on the side of Totalitarianism, always act surpised when a combatant or civilian is killed.
Unless the civilian is living under a Leftist Totalitarian (yeah, almost synonymous) regime like Cuba, China, North Korea, or Saddamite Iraq. When a Leftist kills, he's doing it for the good of humanity!
It is the duty of the press to report. Not to distort in the name of some unobtainable "peace" during which only enemies of the Left are killed (quietly, silently, behind veils of concrete, iron, and mass terror). Not to function as an Organ of the American Democrat Party.
It is also the duty of the press to behave responsibly. If CBS were to come across the itinerary of a medical convoy, they should not broadcast its location to local guerillas. Likewise, should Geraldo actually know something, he shouldn't draw a map on live TV.
(Sometimes, I consider what would happen if we applied "liberal logic" (oxymoron natch) to Freedom of the Press. Back when the First Amendment was drafted, the presses were hand-cranked. Today, we have fully automatic presses that anybody can buy for under a hundred dollars. These assault presses can be used to ruin lives through slander.
Clearly, what is needed is a waiting period, perhaps a week, while the reporter cools off and checks facts!)
I want to see the harsh realities.
Then go there. (Please.)
Those realities are news.
Reality is not necessarily news. Water flowing downhill is not news. Man bites dog is no longer news. Operationally insignificant combat losses and correspondingly tiny collateral losses are not news.
Unless you have an axe to grind or a barely-hidden agenda to push.