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!
Very simply: The vast majority of Americans do not like being told what they can and cannot watch.
I'm not an AFA hater. I don't hate you.
I pity you. You're out of your tree.
Who is "they"?
Are you implying that Don Wildmon is behind every application of FCC obscenity law?
Wow...just WOW...broadbrush much?
I don't hate the AFA. Actually don't feel much towards them one way or another honestly.
What I take issue with is your vehement insistence that we avoid this documentary that uses the ACTUAL AUDIO uttered by real people on 9/11 simply because you are offended by obscenities that IMHO were justified given the nature of what was going on?
The real FDNY and NYFD involved in 9/11 trying to save those people didn't say "golly" "fudge" and "darn it" when they saw what was happening around them.
Why are you trying to force us into hearing a candy coated version of reality?
Bump to that!
And that is an option available to them so that the ENTIRE FAMILY can watch it together and discuss it afterwards. BUT some hear don't want everybody to watch it. They want to keep pushing the border to total freedom of expression on tv without any censorship whatsoever!!! That has, is, and will be their goal until it is achieved.....and at this rate they WILL achieve their goal.
I don't hate the AFA, but I'm getting there thanks to you.
Howlin
Thanks for you posts on this thread
I taped this when it first came on and watched it the other night. It gave me goosebumps then and as I write this.
One of the most powerful scenes is when the two brothers are reunited at the end. Truly this is 'must see tv'.
But they got this one wrong.
NYFD = NYPD
Sorry...don't want the grammar NAZI's to attack me.
I wouldn't be surprised if The Daily Show did a segment intercutting Wildmon's jackassery, encouraged by one of their staffers pretending to fully agree with it, with a few snippets of "The Donald Wildmon Version of 9/11" in which people respond to the atrocities unfolding before their eyes by yelling "Goshdarnit!" and "Jumpin' Jehosophat!"
It would make Wildmon look like an even bigger idiot than he does already, as he richly deserves.
It would also make anybody else to the right of Rudy Guiliani look like an idiot, too, by association -- though getting on the record about how nonsensical we think this is will help somewhat.
Tell them you are prepared to file a formal complaint with the FCC if they do.
So these guys want US to keep this thing off the air?
Notice that those who are so adamantly against censorship of profanity are themselves censoring THEMSELVES by not typing THEIR profanity in it's entirety. I say, PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH, HYPOCRITES!
Sufferin'Succotash!
You know what...I have the good sense to teach my kids that just because they hear profanity it doesn't give them the green light to say it. They don't watch shows of that nature on TV anyway.
Bus something as important as this documentary on 9/11 is an exception to the rule.
I don't need a censor pushing a bleep button to do that for me.
And I don't need to shield my kids from the harsh realities of that tragic day either.
Watching this show with the family...profanity and all isn't going to lead to the downfall of this country's young people...it won't even make a dent.
They're probably trying to be polite and to keep to the rules of the website. They're also not under the duress people were on 9/11 in the World Trade Center.
Are you always this insane, or are you capable of a sense of proportion on other topics? :)
The network is suing the FCC over the indecency law, saying they should be able to show whatever they desire whenever they desire. CBS wants no limits.
I can find no documentation on that; how about backing up that claim, pal.
Actually you pompus jackass...we follow the rules of this privately owned forum and refrain from bad language, lest we get sent to the corner by the Mods.
Get over yourself.
Yup...they want us to do their work FOR them.
That almost sounds Liberal.
If no changes are made and your CBS affiliate carries the program, AFA will provide you with information for filing a formal complaint with the FCC.
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