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?
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.
That's a philosophical question. The more important question is, why would it be OK for the government to force CBS to edit profanity out of a factual account of the most important event of our lifetime?
If/when that happens, can we expect Jim Robinson to allow a word for dirty-word tanscript here at Free Republic?
Ask him. His site, his rules. Exercising control over your own publication isn't censorship -- it's called editing.