Posted on 01/04/2006 1:11:05 PM PST by InvisibleChurch
NBC affiliate WTWO in Terre Haute, Indiana, has become the first station to announce they will not be showing "The Book of Daniel.”
"We expect other NBC affiliates will join WTWO in their decision,” said American Family Association (AFA) Chairman Donald E. Wildmon.
He also said that NBC is having trouble finding sponsors for the show. AFA says it has been notified by several companies that they have no plans to sponsor the show.
"It appears that NBC will be forced to fill the available ad spots with ‘distressed merchandise’ ads which are sold at pennies on the dollar of the going rate, and with ‘make good’ ads which bring in no money to the network,” Wildmon said.
Wildmon said that other NBC affiliates, bombarded with hundreds of phone calls protesting the manner in which Christians and Christianity are depicted, will refuse to carry the program. "We are tired of NBC’s anti-Christian bigotry,” he stated.
The program’s main characters include Daniel Webster, a drug-addicted Episcopal priest; his alcoholic wife; his son, a 23-year-old homosexual Republican; his daughter, a 16-year-old drug dealer; a 16-year-old adopted son who is having sex with the bishop's daughter; his lesbian secretary who is sleeping with his sister-in-law; and a very unconventional white-robed, bearded Jesus who talks to the priest.
According to media reports, the show is written by Jack Kenny, a practicing homosexual who describes himself as being "in Catholic recovery,” is interested in Buddhist teachings about reincarnation and isn't sure exactly how he defines God and/or Jesus. "I don't necessarily know that all the myth surrounding him (Jesus) is true,” he said.
They are welcome to put it on TV. They are just cutting out a very high percentage of the viewing audience. How come the networks and the OM news shows never talk about the lack of freedom of speech for conservatives? Even FOX (accused of being a conservative cable news network)gives more air time to the lefties just to show that they are 'fair and balanced'.
Just goes to show you how out of touch NBC is.
My husband and I enjoyed it so much (just don't have the funds to buy it ourselves)...I just told my mom about it the other day, since my stepdad is a huge WWII movie fan, I thought he might like it (and his birthday is in less than two weeks!)
Oh good gravy. Free speech deals with the GOVERNMENT saying you can't say something. As free Americans...people have a right to say "Hey NBC...don't show it or else." It's not censorship unless the government does it. If you say people can't protest against NBC...then you are denying THEIR freedom of speech.
Anyone has the right to tell anyone they don't want to see something on TV...except the government. That's the constitution. If you can find it in the constitution that I don't have a right to tell NBC "Don't show this or that..."and that THAT is called censorship or limiting freedom of speech...well...I'll be waiting.
So what you are saying is if we disagree with someone...we shouldn't say anything...then we lose our free speech.
I bet the writer is ticked that Catholic priests can't marry.
Also, couldn't he come up with a more diverse family?
good for you. thankx
"Keep practicing, Jack. Maybe you'll get it right in the end."
Something tells me that's exactly where he wants to "get it".
Try here:
http://www.pineforge.com/healeystudy4/shaheen.pdf
Free speech is a two way road. They speak, we answer.
What could be freeer?
Um,
I don't see anybody introducing a law to prevent this movie from being shown.
I don't see anyone filing a lawsuit to prevent this movie from being shown, unlike the libs did to Sinclair and to the little movie theaters.
I see a business deciding not to air a program on their station. I see businesses declining to spend advertising money to sponsor a show they don't think their target audience will be watching. I see private citizens telling their local stations that they won't be watching the show.
Oh brother! :)
LOL. I noticed that too and thought the same thing. I love my TFAL.
LOL!
So, the answer to my question: Care to list a couple of dozen? should have been, "No, I can't. My post was mostly fabrication."
Thank you for playing.
"If the show is truly as bad as it looks we don't need professional lobbyists protecting us from seeing it."
Maybe I'm a tad more aggressive than you, but there come a point at which I have to say, "ENOUGH!" As another poster stated, this show is a prop-up. They know it will not make money. For once, it isn't about money, this time. This is a deliberate "up yours" from secularist homo-fixated liberals to middle America. There is nothing wrong with letting the network know they suck, in no uncertain terms.
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