That all depends on how good of a shot one is and how close they can get. (This of course falsly assumes that we are governed by those puppet figures we call Governors and Senators and Presidents.)
I, for one, welcome our international-banker overloards.
Broadcast media (like radio and TV) are not about free speech. They are about public airwaves and using them for the common good, since they are a limited medium (bandwidth alloted is not infinite).
No one is locking up Howard Stern or Janet Jackson for what they said. Rather, they are being sanctioned for foisting that on the public through a medium which our laws, courts, etc., have determined should be reserved for the common good. Janet Jackson isn't being upbraided for showing off a boob while she was on her front porch, or even during a "playboy special", but because it happened (without warning) during a televised football game that was being watched by millions of people.
I'm not asking the FCC to to be my Censor Nanny. I'm asking Janet Jeckson to not put that crapeaux in my face, thank you very much. I don't need to see it. If she wants to show that off, block out fifteen minutes of time in the TV Guide and mark it as "Janet's b00bies". Then all the people that want to see it can do so. The rest of us who just want to watch some football with our sons (and/or wives and/or daughters) can do so without having to absorb her lack of modesty.
Your brain cannot filter out the parts that you don't want to see. Once you see it or hear it, you're stuck with it in your head for life (with maybe the exception of Alzheimer's or amnesia). If I'm supposed to fast-forward over the parts I don't want to see, then I've already seen it to know it's there to know I need to fast-forward (I realize this is a rather deep concept, but work through it and I think you'll see the light). How much better if the scenes were individually rated, and the replay device was able to only play the G rated parts, or G and PG, or G, PG and PG-13, etc... up to whatever level the viewer decided to subject themselves to.
But maybe you are right. Maybe today's media is just so chock-full of junk, that I should just not bother with it. Go back to the (gasp) stone-age of spending quality time with my family playing chess, or working on family projects, going to the park, or playing flashlight tag in the basement. I'm sure the channels of communication would stay much more open.
And I'm laughing all the way home from the movie rental store because I'm sidestepping all the crapeaux that Hollywood wanted to feed me.
If I'm a prude because I'm cautious to put wholesome, valuable things into my mind, so be it. What you call "prudeness", I call "descriminating taste".
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I, for one, welcome our international-banker overloards.
Just wanted to say I took a look at the opening page(s) of your website and was impressed. Hope you get lots of business.
No one is locking up Howard Stern or Janet Jackson for what they said. Rather, they are being sanctioned for foisting that on the public through a medium which our laws, courts, etc., have determined should be reserved for the common good. Janet Jackson isn't being upbraided for showing off a boob while she was on her front porch, or even during a "playboy special", but because it happened (without warning) during a televised football game that was being watched by millions of people.
I'm not asking the FCC to to be my Censor Nanny. I'm asking Janet Jeckson to not put that crapeaux in my face, thank you very much. I don't need to see it. If she wants to show that off, block out fifteen minutes of time in the TV Guide and mark it as "Janet's b00bies". Then all the people that want to see it can do so. The rest of us who just want to watch some football with our sons (and/or wives and/or daughters) can do so without having to absorb her lack of modesty.
Your brain cannot filter out the parts that you don't want to see. Once you see it or hear it, you're stuck with it in your head for life (with maybe the exception of Alzheimer's or amnesia). If I'm supposed to fast-forward over the parts I don't want to see, then I've already seen it to know it's there to know I need to fast-forward (I realize this is a rather deep concept, but work through it and I think you'll see the light). How much better if the scenes were individually rated, and the replay device was able to only play the G rated parts, or G and PG, or G, PG and PG-13, etc... up to whatever level the viewer decided to subject themselves to.
But maybe you are right. Maybe today's media is just so chock-full of junk, that I should just not bother with it. Go back to the (gasp) stone-age of spending quality time with my family playing chess, or working on family projects, going to the park, or playing flashlight tag in the basement. I'm sure the channels of communication would stay much more open.
If I'm a prude because I'm cautious to put wholesome, valuable things into my mind, so be it. What you call "prudeness", I call "descriminating taste".