# History Channel Kills New kennedy Bio-Censorship? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 8, 2011, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/history-channel-kills-new-kennedy-bio-censorship/566891 "2011-01-08T16:46:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Capitaine\_Zombie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e95f7d/32.png) [@Capitaine\_Zombie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capitaine_Zombie)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2011, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/history-channel-kills-new-kennedy-bio-censorship/566891/21 "2011-01-12T01:22:07Z")
> [@ralph124c](#): > > Well, it has just come out that Caroline Kennedy wrote to the producers, requesting that the broadcast behalted. So I’ll have to see it in Canada. > Question: why would anyone in Canada be interested in this? It concerns events almost 50 years old. You’re right, we should erase history every ten years or so. ---
**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2011, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/history-channel-kills-new-kennedy-bio-censorship/566891/22 "2011-01-12T01:31:31Z")
When I first caught sight of the thread title, I thought, “What’s Bio-censorship and what did Kennedy have to do with its history?” 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2011, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/history-channel-kills-new-kennedy-bio-censorship/566891/23 "2011-01-12T02:16:41Z")
> [@ralph124c](#): > > Well, it has just come out that Caroline Kennedy wrote to the producers, requesting that the broadcast behalted. Damn. Now there’s no way to find out what happened in the Kennedy White House except reading the hundreds of books written about it, reading any of the public documents, or watching any of the other movies about that time. Do you feel this qualifies as the Kennedys “causing the channel to drop it?” ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2011, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/history-channel-kills-new-kennedy-bio-censorship/566891/24 "2011-01-12T02:59:50Z")
The producers didn’t want to end up like [Glenn Stensel](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0826665/). Stensel was a bit-part actor who had dreams of becoming a producer, his first attempt being about the [the Chappaquiddick incident](http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=5l0zAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3ekFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2668,1621794). . . and then it all came crashing down. Not only did the movie not get made, but Stensel DIED not long after. Coincidence? ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2011, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/history-channel-kills-new-kennedy-bio-censorship/566891/25 "2011-01-12T03:37:12Z")
> [@ralph124c](#): > > Question: why would anyone in Canada be interested in this? It concerns events almost 50 years old. By that reasoning, why would anyone in the U.S. be interested in it, either? It’s not like those events are any newer in the U.S. than they are in Canada. ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2011, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/history-channel-kills-new-kennedy-bio-censorship/566891/26 "2011-01-12T06:04:16Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > Unless they were ordered to drop it by the government, it’s not censorship. I really hate this. Every time somebody so much as uses the word “censorship” we get somebody else bringing up this old saw. The problem these posts is not just that they are pedantic, they are just plain wrong. [Censorship](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship) is “suppression of speech or other communication which may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or inconvenient to the general body of people as determined by a government, **media outlet** , or other controlling body”. If a channel decides to edit some of its shows or not air them at all it is censorship _by definition_. ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2011, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/history-channel-kills-new-kennedy-bio-censorship/566891/27 "2011-01-12T06:20:38Z")
Almost everything ever shown on television has been _edited_. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2011, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/history-channel-kills-new-kennedy-bio-censorship/566891/28 "2011-01-12T12:27:11Z")
> [@ralph124c](#): > > Well, it has just come out that Caroline Kennedy wrote to the producers, requesting that the broadcast behalted. So I’ll have to see it in Canada. > Question: why would anyone in Canada be interested in this? It concerns events almost 50 years old. Well, half of the other shows on History Television are the same Nostradamus/Mayan calendar junk that they show on the History Channel in the U.S. I’m more baffled why anyone would watch that type of thing. (“Anyone” includes my wife.) ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2011, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/history-channel-kills-new-kennedy-bio-censorship/566891/29 "2011-01-12T12:48:50Z")
Maybe they learned something from the hatchet job that ABC did with “The Path to 9/11”. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2011, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/history-channel-kills-new-kennedy-bio-censorship/566891/30 "2011-01-12T13:04:39Z")
It IS odd that they spent all that money on, and then dropped it once it was finished. I know they’re reportedly shopping around for a place to air it, but I agree that something is rotten in the state of Denmark… ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2011, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/history-channel-kills-new-kennedy-bio-censorship/566891/31 "2011-02-01T21:23:34Z")
It looks like it will be airing on ReelzChannel in April. > **[‘Kennedys’ Miniseries Lands Home, Will Air on ReelzChannel (EXCLUSIVE)](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/kennedys-miniseries-lands-home-air-95123/)** > > The controversial miniseries will have its world premiere on April 3. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2011, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/history-channel-kills-new-kennedy-bio-censorship/566891/32 "2011-02-03T04:58:13Z")
> [@spark240](#): > > Almost everything ever shown on television has been _edited_. And when it is edited on grounds of someone finding it distasteful, especially when the artist considers it vital to the work, it is called censorship by a majority of people. From the artists’ perspective, there just really is not a big difference in which large organization prevents you from saying what you want to say. If you want to champion the idea that only the government can censor, then you need to come up with a word that means what artists believe the word means. Maybe you can get the language to change back to the way you want it, rather the way it actually is. But don’t pretend like it’s that way already. As the armed monkey says, it is annoyingly incorrect. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2011, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/history-channel-kills-new-kennedy-bio-censorship/566891/33 "2011-02-03T05:15:54Z")
If artists don’t know what the word means, they’re stupid. Censorship is what the government does. When a network does it, it’s business. Nobody is going to jail, and no private network has an obligation to air anything. ---
**Author:** ![oliversarmy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/eb8c5e/32.png) [@oliversarmy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oliversarmy)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2011, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/history-channel-kills-new-kennedy-bio-censorship/566891/34 "2011-02-03T05:21:31Z")
BigT: Only the government can censor. If you don’t understand that, I don’t know how to address your comment. ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2011, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/history-channel-kills-new-kennedy-bio-censorship/566891/35 "2011-04-05T18:31:24Z")
I don’t get Reelz anymore, since I changed my DirecTV plan. But I was wondering if anyone here was watching. Also, the Daily Show did a pretty good bit on this last night, that also briefly touched on the pseudo-science crap the History Channel shows these days. > **[The Daily Show with Trevor Noah | Comedy Central](https://www.cc.com/shows/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah)** > > The Daily Show is an Emmy- and Peabody Award-winning program that looks at the day’s top headlines through a sharp, reality-based lens. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/history-channel-kills-new-kennedy-bio-censorship/566891.md?page=1)