The Coming Fight Over TV Violence

gollum123 writes "Time reports the guardians of decency are warning about new trouble, with a capital T, which rhymes with V, which stands for violence. The Parents Television Council (PTC), the group at the vanguard of the TV-sex wars, has lately focused on prime-time blood: power-tool torture on 24, serial killing on Criminal Minds, vivisection on Heroes. And the FCC has prepared a draft report suggesting that Congress authorize it to regulate broadcast violence, as it now does obscenity, and possibly force cable companies to let subscribers opt out of paying for channels that run brutal content. In short, torture is the new sex. Jack Bauer is the new Janet Jackson."

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Re:Not really "news"

[MrNaz]

Perhaps, just as a maybe, the quarter of a million troops currently deployed don't all follow the rules. Furthermore, just because the scenario you describe is the norm for the bottom of the food chain troops does not mean that is the way it happens when one of those guys you mention with PhDs in non-violent interrogation decides this guy knows something but is not talking. Then perhaps a few months would go by and just another body is found on a road somewhere.

Tell me, you veteran military officer you, how would you know if such a thing were to happen. You think you'd hear about it over coffee and MREs? If you genuinely believe that one side are the "good guys" and only do "good things" and the other side is "evil" and they are all "bad guys" then really, all I have to say about you is JARHEAD.