Posted on 02/07/2005 4:23:52 PM PST by scottybk
LET us be grateful that Janet Jackson did not bare both breasts.
On the first anniversary of the Super Bowl wardrobe malfunction that shook the world, it's clear that just one was big enough to wreak havoc. The ensuing Washington indecency crusade has unleashed a wave of self-censorship on American television unrivaled since the McCarthy era, with everyone from the dying D-Day heroes in "Saving Private Ryan" to cuddly animated animals on daytime television getting the ax. Even NBC's presentation of the Olympics last summer, in which actors donned body suits to simulate "nude" ancient Greek statues, is currently under federal investigation.
Public television is now so fearful of crossing its government patrons that it is flirting with self-immolation. Having disowned lesbians in the children's show "Postcards From Buster" and stripped suspect language from "Prime Suspect" on "Masterpiece Theater," PBS is editing its Feb. 23 broadcast of "Dirty War," the HBO-BBC film about a terrorist attack, to remove a glimpse of female nudity in a scene depicting nuclear detoxification. Next thing you know they'll be snipping lascivious flesh out of a documentary about Auschwitz.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
I stopped reading at this point.
No sex and nudity for the kiddies! We're all gonna DIE!!
Uh, what's wrong with self-censorship? If Frank Rich wants titillating TV, he needs to rent the videos behind the curtain in his local video store.
LET us be grateful that Janet Jackson did not bare both breasts.
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Yea Really, I can look at TOGGLE Switches at the Hardware Store!
Black/Brown or White Even !
The red ones, OH Never mind!!
My goodness, what is wrong with this man?
It's all Bush's fault!!
This guy can go to his local video store and buy any sex act he wishes to see, Why is he so mad that we all dont want to see it on our TV shows?
The fact that he is whining means that the campaign for
clean programming is finally winning.
Even in 1965 PBS programming was offensive.
Let's see, no controversy is a controversy.
What a controversial thing to say
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