Missing the Forest for the $%#!@ Trees
From Yahoo! News:
CBS Corp. said on Saturday it would broadcast the documentary "9/11" on the Internet as well as the airwaves after several affiliates said they would delay or forgo the award-winning film because it includes profanity.
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CBS said affiliates that cover about 10 percent of the United States had decided not broadcast the program or would show it late at night, citing concerns they could be fined for airing profanity, primarily by firefighters during the crisis, before 10 p.m.
The American Family Association, which describes itself as a Christian organization promoting traditional values, has called on CBS stations to forgo or delay the "9/11" broadcast.
This is re-got-damned-diculous to me. I mean, come on! We expect our heroic firefighters, salt-of-the-earth types that they are, to sacrifice their lives to save ours, and not let an F-bomb slip from time to time? What is more important, that this excellent film be available on the free airwaves to as many Americans as possible (who are perfectly able to decide that they do not want to watch, or that they do not consider it appropriate for their kids to watch), or that our ears (which, being the good Christians that we are, are not trash cans!) are spared from profanity?
And am I missing something, or why didn't CBS simply bleep the stronger language when they ran the movie before 22:00 or whenever the FCC's magic decency time expires?
3 Comments:
This is truly unbelievable and pathetic. Is this the FCC's legacy post-"wardrobe malfunction"?
We're honoring the brave men and women who risked their lives on that day by pretending they didn't curse? Why don't we also pretend they weren't afraid, weren't angry, weren't frustrated, etc.? Why don't we just censor life so it fits some Christian Fundamentalist's sanitized version of reality?
Since this is our blog, I feel free to say FUCK YOU to all these un-American free speech haters.
Those fuckers.
Maybe we can combine those last two comments into:
FUCK THOSE FUCKING FUCKERS... FUCK!
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