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!
When I think of all the President has been through, being accused of being responsible for 9-11, it makes me so angry to think that clinton gets a pass.
Different TV show.
This one is a real documentary, filmed inside the Twin Towers on 9/11, and Clinton is nowhere to be seen.
Some people HERE don't want it shown on Sunday night, because a bunch of firemen who'd been through hell were filmed saying the F-word and such.
You are now caught up.
As others have noted, Bill's attacking the mini-series on ABC. The AFA's attacking a documentary on CBS.
This is history. And there is no need to homogenize history to suit a crackpot who pretends to "care" for the morals of everyone.
I have no desire to ignore history. I have no desire to santize it for my children's sake. My older two will be watching; they are old enough to handle it. The youngest one will be sticking with Spongebob.
Then again, I insist on parent my own children, as opposed to letting someone else do it for me.
This isn't the doing of the Left. It's the social conversatives that are trying to keep it from being shown.
Damn right!
But didn't your mama and daddy teach you to not be an ass at the expense of others?
Kind of an extreme example, anyway.
You must be one of them libertarians.
Are you kidding?
It's too much fun to take portions of them out of context and then write sarcastic tripe in response to them.
My point, the article be damned, is that I don't need a bunch of pinch-mouthed, panties-in-a-wad nannies like the AFA telling me what I should or should not allow my children to watch or to read.
That responsibility rests with the parents.
All else smacks of censorship on a level which I think is downright dangerous.
The AFA is not much different than the taliban nitwits, then, is it?
Perhaps my religious beliefs require me to expose my children to profane and vulgar material via the television networks.
Where is your sense of tolerance for diversity?
Where are you gonna draw the line?
Pat Robertson don't like "Blue's Clues"?
What are you gonna do, write letters to Nickolodean and demand they not show it anymore, or are you gonna turn the damn TV off?
Sheesh!
Some people get their panties in a wad over stuff that really, really does not matter.
ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, CNBC, CNN, HNN, have been losing viewers by the millions each year, but has that stopped them from spewing their slanted rhetoric? NO!!!
Because there will always be someone that watches them and they know that. And that knowledge is bolstered by the very fact that you and the AFA are incensed by what they do.
And they ain't doing it for free.
They know that the products that sponsor other shows are purchased by the people that watch.
Do you honestly think they're gonna do it for free?
No, they'll give up one every once in a while, just to keep the illusion going.
Who cares, anyway?
Just turn the damn TV off.
Well, because of these idiots and the FCC my local station has moved the broadcast from 8 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. Complete and absolute stupidity. The station manager said they ran the same show twice in the first year after 9/11 and didn't get a single complaint. But now dolts who listen to this organization have written to complain about a program they haven't even seen -- a program they know will have four-letter words so they've been warned and can simply turn it off or bar children from watching. How hard is that?
Somebody please save us from these puritan nutcases.
BTTT - I watched the unedited program last night without major psychic damage from the few well-targeted cuss words. I hope the frantic person who did so much of the posting on how bad the network was for not bleeping the presentation saw it as well, but I'm sure he didn't.
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