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!
If there were NO protest, you bet your sweet bippy it will become that degeneris. (Sp)
Ask the resident blue-nose. I'm sure he has an opinion. ;)
Vinnie will have to do it, he's closer! :)
Righteous indignation toward gutter talk has always been "offensive" to some people. But to say that this is "one of more offensive posts" you've seen tells me where you're coming from.
All my TVs have an ON/OFF switch. I use it as necessary. I suggest you do the same.
Have you heard the saying "cutting off your nose despite your face"?
That's what you're advocating with a call for this protest.
Do you have any idea how badly this reflects on conservatives? And I don't mean in blue states, I'm talking about red states where the show will be blacked out and folks who wanted to see it will look for someone to blame. And you can bet they won't blame CBS. And you can bet they'll remember it come Nov.
You can watch all the porn you want by renting videos at your local porn shop.....you know where they are....don't you?
Hey, catchy screenname.
What exactly is the "1" you refer to?
A prudish moonbat?
An irrational kook?
Please advise. If so, I am not "1-2"
Are you a masochist?
send him to this thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1696327/posts
Wildmon is an embarassment.
But how would you know about the truth of this organization.
It's like a thief who can never find a cop.*
*A thief doesn't look for cops.
Yes.
If so, this is a must-see, profanity or no.
Yes. I suspect it's mostly the liberal crowd who don't want this shown, just as they like to keep all reminders of 9-11 away from the public.
Precisely.
Taking advantage of some gullible conservatives, I suppose.
And the proper response of true conservatives is to tell Wildmon to have a cup -- no, a drum -- of STFU.
Mind your own business.
This moron believes that a few naughty words are more important than an act of mass murder and the ongoing threat presented by its perpetrators?
If so, he can "stand up for" his beliefs off in Moonbatistan with the other lunatics.
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