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Parents shocked to find pornography broadcast on Disney Channel in New Jersey town
International Herald Tribune ^ | Wednesday, May 2, 2007 | Associated Press

Posted on 05/02/2007 1:32:11 PM PDT by SubGeniusX

MIDDLETOWN, New Jersey: A cable television company is investigating just how children in some New Jersey homes ended up watching hardcore pornography when they tuned into a popular cartoon program on the Disney Channel.

Paul Dunleavy, a Middletown, New Jersey, subscriber to cable giant Comcast, was stunned Tuesday morning to find his 5-year-old son watching something other than "Handy Manny," a cartoon show about a bilingual Latino handyman, Manny Garcia, and his talking tools.

"It was two people doing their thing, it was full-on and it was disgusting," the Middletown father of three told The New York Daily News newspaper for its Wednesday editions.

"I couldn't believe it," he said. "We try to do the right thing to protect our kids from this stuff, and then they broadcast it on children's TV."

Dunleavy's phone number was unlisted when The Associated Press tried to contact him Wednesday.

Comcast spokesman Fred DeAndrea confirmed the programming error occurred around 9:30 a.m. Tuesday. He described it as an "isolated issue in a local New Jersey facility."

"We automatically detected the issue and it was corrected promptly. We apologize to any customer who experienced an issue yesterday morning," said DeAndrea, who said the mistake was made by his company, not Disney.

DeAndrea declined to provide the duration of the pornography broadcast, how many homes it reached, how the mistake happened and whether anyone will be disciplined for the X-rated error.

(Excerpt) Read more at iht.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: disney; disneychannel; pornography; tylerdurden; wwtdd
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To: rovenstinez
...maybe a good law suit will keep the Disney channel tuned to just Donald Duck.

Now, this is the character that does not wear pants...?

21 posted on 05/02/2007 3:34:07 PM PDT by hunter112
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To: hunter112

On one of those cartoon channels they do have a show called “No undie Mondays” or something to that effect. It features cartoons with characters that don’t wear undies/pants.


22 posted on 05/02/2007 3:44:52 PM PDT by CaliGirl-R (America is a "safe haven" for terrorists thanks to Political Correctness!)
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To: gcruse
I was wondering why my ten year old nephew was sitting in front of the TV with his chin hitting the floor. I bet he wasn’t supposed to see this type of sexual education until he reached the sixth grade at the public school.
23 posted on 05/02/2007 6:19:13 PM PDT by peeps36 (OUTLAWED WORDS--INSURGENT,GLOBAL WARMING,UNDOCUMENTED WORKER,PALESTINIAN,TERMINATED PREGNANCY)
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To: HEY4QDEMS

“In today’s episode, kids, Manny Garcia and his talking tools make something airtight!”


24 posted on 05/03/2007 6:46:26 PM PDT by quark
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