Growing number of CBS affiliates refusing to carry profanity laden program

American Family Association/Action Alert/Email | Donald E. Wildmon

[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!

[rwfromkansas]

taht is a diff program

[Iam1ru1-2]

"-I reject this post, no matter what the context."

And I reject your rejection of this post.

[VRWCmember]

I draw the line with what A&E did to Repo Man. "Flip you, melonfarmer" just doesn't sound bombastic enough.

Die Hard 2 was even funnier: "Yippee Ki-yay Mister Falcon"

[SerpentDove]

When this documentary became available on DVD I rushed right out to get it.

Where did you get it? I didn't know it was available. I want to get it myself.

[raccoonradio]

I watched it the first time. When the firemen go to investigate a gas leak, they look up to see a jetliner flying above. The camera swivels over and catches it as it hits one of the Towers (it was the first plane). One of the firemen can be heard saying, "Holy s---! Holy s---!"

Stations that don't the FCC on their necks can substitute:
"Golly gee! Golly gee!"

[mnehring]

So this is how the left tries to hide the truth and split our side on this.. they try to obfuscate the facts and program by complaining about bad language..

I bet Clintoon and Albright are just loving this.. anything to keep people from seeing this show..

[RegulatorCountry]

"And I reject your rejection of this post."

Does that make you an antidisrejectionarian?

[dfwgator]

They could just do the Johnny Dangerously thing, "Fargin' Bastiges!!!"

[tx_eggman]

You must be loads of fun to be around at work. Do you run around he workplace with a ruler or do you just perpetually file grievances for potty mouths?

Brings this character to mind ...

[tx_eggman]

Clinton Stooges have complained to CBS about some of the content of this program concerning themselves and Klinton, and that CBS is "editing" some parts of the program before it airs on Sunday

Same mistake I made ... that's the ABC mini-series, not this CBS documentary.

[whirleygirl]

"AFA is on the side of terrorists apparently"

If jumping to conclusions was an Olympic sport, you'd be a gold medal winner. AFA are not by any stretch of the imagination terrorist sympathizers. They're just a little myopic when it comes to morality.

[BaBaStooey]

I bought mine at Best Buy when it came out 4+ years ago, but it can be found right here:

http://www.amazon.com/11-Filmmakers-Commemorative-James-Hanlon/dp/B00006B1HI/sr=8-1/qid=1157566676/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-3166337-7363958?ie=UTF8&s=dvd

[the_Watchman]

People hurtling themselves from the windows to fall to their deaths is obscene! And it should be seen in every home in America!!

[SerpentDove]

Thanks!

[Iam1ru1-2]

" we don't need you playing nanny for the rest of us."

It seems that the Federal, state, and local governments are "playing nanny" upon the entire U.S. citizenry by imposing their values upon us, legitimizing it by calling their "playing nanny" LAWS! So we should get rid of all "playing nanny" from everything.....right? Isn't imposing "law" upon us a form of "morality" also, and isn't morality considered "RELIGION", and isn't there a clause in the U.S. Constitution that forbids religious influence into government or so the atheist liberals would have you believe?

[AnotherUnixGeek]

The AFA tends to offend easily. Many people think that they do good work, but I tend to disagree.

So do I. The AFA's "good work" seems to consist entirely of obnoxious letter-writing campaigns to the FCC based on the notion that American parents aren't capable of monitoring what their children watch on TV. The answer to this problem, if it exists at all, is more rigorous parenting. The AFA's preferred solution, however, is to infantilize broadcast TV.

[jch10]

I used the link to contact my CBS station and urged them to show the program.

[CougarGA7]

If the profanity is such a problem, then beep it. I think this is more about another group wanting to shield Americans from the truth of what happened that day.

And shielding them from it is the worse thing we can do. Too many Americans have forgotten what that day meant, what it laid out before us, and what we still have to do.

And those individual are working tirelessly to obstruct the actions that must be done, which will only leave it for my children to face later, and with greater consequences.

[GregH]

it would be appreciated if CBS cans its news programs as well, considering the amount of propaganda they indulge in.