Posted on 09/06/2006 10:46:23 AM PDT by Iam1ru1-2
Ask the FCC to enforce broadcast decency laws should CBS air profane language during prime-time viewing hours this Sunday evening
Earlier I wrote you about the plans by CBS to air "9/11" containing hardcore profanity during primetime viewing (Supreme Court's 'safe-harbour') hours when children are most likely to be watching television. The program is schedule to air this Sunday evening.
Because of your actions, CBS announced they would not seek sponsors for the program. But they also said, sponsors or no sponsors, that they will not mute the profanity.
A growing number of CBS affiliates have publicly stated that they would not carry the program. Other affiliates are expected to drop the show or air it late at night. Those that do carry it risk at fine of $325,000 for each indecent incident. Potential fines could run into the millions of dollars.
But CBS has responded by saying that the profanity is ok to broadcast to children because it will be shown "in context" of the program itself.
If the FCC allows this as an acceptable excuse to air the profanity, it leaves the door open for CBS to show anything and everything because anything, and everything, is always "in context."
For instance, suppose CBS decides they want to air a documentary concerning pornography. Using CBS's logic, the network could show actual hardcore pornographic scenes in an "after school special" saying the scenes are "in context" and necessary because they are an integral part of the documentary.
The phrase "in context" means that CBS could (and would) show anything because it is "in context." In the final analysis "in context" means nothing is exempt.
I urge you to email the FCC urging them to reject the "in context" argument. A copy will also go to CBS. And please forward this to your friends and family.
Take Action
Send the email to the FCC asking them to reject the "in context" argument.
Contact your local CBS affiliate" and ask them not to air "9/11." Tell them you are prepared to file a formal complaint with the FCC if they do.
Please inform your friends and family.
Click Here to Email the FCC Now!
How about not watching it if it offends you? Did this ever occur to you?
Are you insane? You want people to make those kinds of choices on their own? You actually want people to decide what is offensive all by themselves? Geesh!
The world is full of busybody f...wad* a$$holes. You can either shoot them or ignore them. Or make sure their intrusive campaigns meet with the contempt they truly deserve.
*deliberate cursing
What in the name of God are you babbling about?
Is there a ping list for that?
Thanks for that post. I didn't realize there were two different programs, either. So the one Clinton hates is different than the one Wildmon hates?
I hope they show them both uncensored.
I'm no fan of vulgarity but if ever there was an appropriate moment to let loose a blue streak, that would have been it.
What are these people thinking?
In 102 Minutes, one lady was in the south tower on the same level that the first plane hit, looking out her window at the north tower at the exact moment the plane exploded in the building.
The impact and concussion knocked her to her feet and SINGED the papers on the desks around her.
Horrifying. That's what I call hell on earth.
I believe that censorship is un-American, and that parents, not the FCC, should decide what is decent to watch and what isn't.
If you let the "head of a camel in the tent", guess what will eventually happen? Remember when abortions were suppose to be few and only if the mother life was in danger, and then it became allowed in the 1st trimester only, then the second, then at any time, at any age, for any reason, even when the baby is completely out of the birth canal except the head - it can be murdered and considered a LEGAL abortion? If this is not checked or if the public show no outcry, then the liberal media and Hollywierd will take it as a green light to do more outlandish things. It's no wonder why we have been experiencing more and more tragedy upon this nation. Many call it the result of "Global Warming", I believe it should be called "Divine Anger".
you keep going further and further out on a limb defending yourself. If I were you I'd stop, go write a million angry letters to anyone you can think of (they are going to ignore them anyway, or tell you that you CAN change the d@mn channel)
We have "The PRIG Ping List," for sure. I think we can use that one as a data base. :-)
Some of us are intelligent and mature enough to handle reality unedited, without it being cleaned up for infant-level sensibilities. If you aren't one of those people, don't watch what REALLY happened, and don't alter a program documenting reality for those of us who don't need our hands held.
Good job; I myself am trying to work in as many offending words as I can, damnit to hell!
Flight 93, the movie ,is going to be on A&E, Thurs. 9/7/06 at 9:00pm.
I plan on watching the 9/11 doc.
Do you know the schedule?
If it was a case that they filmed dramatizations of events and filled it with profanity I would agree with you. This is not the case. This is actual footage.
Comparing this with abortion is radicalism. You need to take a step back dude.
Wait till you get to 169. LOL.
Most TVs I've seen come with a free "Off" switch.
We're watching the personification of Ambrose Bierce's dictum that the word "POSITIVE" means "being wrong in the loudest possible voice." :-\
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