CBS To Air Profanity-Laden Program (Complaint About "9/11" Documentary)

American Family Association ^ | August 2006 | n/a

[Pyro7480]

Not content with all the profanity already on TV, CBS has decided to air the profanity-laden unedited version of "9/11" on Sept. 10. The decision by CBS is a slap in the face to the FCC and Congress, which recently raised indecency fines to $325,000 per incident.

"9/11," which will be shown in prime-time, contains a tremendous amount of hardcore profanity. CBS has stated they have not, and will not, make any cuts in the amount and degree of profanity. CBS will ignore the law. 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.

This is a test case for CBS to see how far they can go. If there is no out-pouring of complaints from the public, they will go further the next time.

[WV Mountain Mama]

How young are your children? There are many sanitized documentaries. I watched one on the National Geographic Channel. It is told with footage and eyewitness testimony (as well as widow testimony) as to what was said between spouses etc. I believe this is it.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000BBS9QK/103-6669596-0468647?v=glance&n=130


This documentary about to be aired was actually filmed as the guys were coincidentally filming firefighters doing their everyday stuff.

This is the single, most powerful piece of history ever filmed, imo. There is very little film footage that has been shot live throughout history where it is captured so accurately, up close and from the perspective of the victims. It is much more powerful than any images shot from a helicopter. This film catches the horror from the ground where people were hitting the pavement, burn victims were being staged, general chaos was underway, the largest and most successful rescue operation in the world was taking place, and our country was receiving an act of war by people who would like us all dead. People think the D-Day scene was dramatic in "Saving Private Ryan". Now imagine if a film crew just happened to be filming a beach scene there and captured it all. I have a feeling that the scene in the movie would pale in comparison.

This needs to be seen as is. Al Qaeda would give us a 9-11 everyday if they could and too many in our country have already forgotten that.

[durasell]

THIS IS MERELY CBS TRYING TO BECOME RELEVANT AGAIN.



okay. and?

[muryan]

to the AFA...Im in agreement with you.

[daybreakcoming]

We have the dvd's of nearly every film made of 9/11 and they have watched them. There is not a null and void area in their lives concerning 9/11.

I did not imply that they or any other child would suffer permanent damage as you suggest. We are not puritans but those who insist that vulgar words must be used to illustrate a point after the fact are needy.

[mplsconservative]

Thank you. :)

[TET1968]

If you have ever had a rocket fired at you, there's a good chance someone in your crowd yelled "HOLY @&#K".
Well it is New York, so you're likely to hear "holy #@*king sh!t, what da #@*k is going the #@*k on? F#*king faggetaboutit! Some motha f#*@ing bastads are outta the motha f@#*ing minds!!"

That's about right. Your missing about 5 additional mothas......but that was pretty good.

[subterfuge]

Thanks TET. I thought I was surely going to get flamed for that.

[stevie_d_64]

I understand...I happened to catch some of their footage...

What luck they had running a "gas leak" call with the station they were hanging out with and then this happened...I commend them for their luck in documenting such an unforeseen event during that call...

Not that I do not care about what happened, I just do not personally need, nor see the need to have dramatic recreations, or re-broadcasts of actual footage of what happened that day...

I do not see a value to that...socially or economic value...

If you forget, so be it...It doesn't make you more or less of a person in my book...

If you wish to draw a comparison...My grandfather was at Pearl Harbor when it was attacked...I see documentaries and footage of that attack all the time...I don't need that...

My grandfather for years would tell me little details of that day that far outweigh any drama or documentary could ever repeat or recreate...

It made it all too real to be in the service years after to be able to walk around some of the places my grandfather talked about, and be able to close my eyes and remember what "he" told me...

To me those experiences are more valuable than whatever the entertainment industry doing the same thing for whatever reason...

But thats just my take...I'm not cross, or mad, at the direction of this discussion at all...

[Houmatt]

You know, this is one point where the AFA is out of line.

For someone who owns the film on DVD and has made a point of watching it every September 11 for the past three years (and I will again this year, along with United93), I can tell you the "profanity laden" accusation is exaggerated. There are some F and S words, yes. But it is the real reactions of real people experiencing real horrors on a very real day.

If the AFA has a problem with that, tough.

[linda_22003]

There's the misunderstanding, then. The "vulgar words" are not used "after the fact" - the few I recall in the documentary are coming out of the mouths of firemen and other rescue personnel, and witnesses, at the moment these things happened.

[WV Mountain Mama]

There is nothing in this documentary that is recreated or added after the fact (dialogue, profanity, etc). And not many people are lucky enough to have a relative that can give first hand stories over years as to what happenened on some of the most infamous days in our country's history from the actual place.

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

The FCC isn't going to do jack about this.

If they are not going to do anything, then their new rules will be challenged by every other network who will also want to air profanity. Which will send us back to where we were. Once you open the door a little...

[NurdlyPeon]

That won't happen. The leftists like you, who want the nation to forget this atrocity, are no longer in charge.

Ya, kid, whatever.

[xzins]

Censorship that matters is that done by the government. Other censorship can be brought about by the use of force from other sources. However, when the owner/speaker decides on his/her own to change something that is not censorship.

If the person who produces something changes words to appeal to different audiences for financial or personal reasons, then that person is simply editing his own work at his own pleasure.

[daybreakcoming]

Hi Mama - I agree with much of what you say. As I said in another post in this thread - we have most every dvd that has been made re 9/11 because I want my children to remember that day long after I am gone......just as my parents taught me in their own words about Dec 7th. And speaking of D-Day? My mother cannot bear those scenes on the History Channel even to this day.

My only problem with this film would be the F-word. I fully understand it being said at the time. I would probably be screaming it myself had I been on the scene - :o) I would just prefer it blipped from my home screen.

[TChris]

I have it on my computer and have watched it every year since 2001.

Where can I download it? (or can I still?)

[Responsibility2nd]

Forgive me if this point has previously been mentioned:

Why is it OK for CBS to air unedited profanity?

If/when that happens, can we expect Jim Robinson to allow a word for dirty-word tanscript here at Free Republic?

If not, why not?

[One-Four-Five]

It's not OK, who's saying or suggesting that? It's something that many of us feel is worth letting go, something that does not rise to the level of being a severe enough violation to deserve incurring a fine.

I reject any & all suggestions that this is merely an attempt by CBS to have a precedent so they may allow profanity, unfettered, in the future. This is NOT AN ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAM.

It's a one-of-a-kind document that deserves to be digested as-is, without insulting those of us who will find a way to live another day if we hear a curse word broadcast on a program that doesn't begin until 9 pm at night.

And I'm sure that the millions of people who don't supervise their children properly, thereby somehow insuring that their children will gleefully gather around the set just to hear a curse word, will not have Child Protective Services knocking on their doors.

The owner of this site can do as he sees fit. He's already spiked a post in this thread by someone who saw the need to compare his bowel movements to 9/11, and plenty of bad words to get his point across that they shouldn't be broadcast on television, even in this circumstance.

I believe the views of that poster to be rather unfortunate.

[stands2reason]

I smell troll....

[stands2reason]

You caught a troll.