Nope, seemed pretty clear to me, even before I looked at who wrote it.
Well, ya see, we have to curtail freedom in order to expand it; to make people more free by guiding them in the right direction. :rolleyes:
What’s really frightening about this is that it’s a bipartisan issue.
Link.
Much like when a plane lands safely it is not news, poeple don’t “complain” to the FCC when their sensibilities have not been offended. What we need to do is do a counter-offensive (pun intended) and email and write the FCC that we were not offended and that we cannot have the lowest offended denominator determining what will and won’t appear on my TV screen.
Gangster Octopus has a point.
In fact it seems it only took about three people complaining to earn a record $1.2 million against Fox for its “sexually suggestive” Married by America.
I wasn’t sure at first. I thought you might have meant the previous posters in this thread.
Interesting thought, Homebrew. Does anyone else think we should push for letter-writing campaigns stating how we didn’t find whatever TV event offensive? Sounds like a good idea.
Sam
Put me down.
I am offended by such stupid commercials. I am offended that they show such junk during so-called ‘family hour’. I lump this one in with that other outrageously crude Viagra commercial; the one with the ‘horns’ appearing behind the guy’s head as he gives his wife (though these days, like as not, not his wife) that male intended-to-be-come-hither-but-ends-up-looking-doofy-anyway smirk as they disappear into a lingerie shop. I absolutely hate every stinking one of the male-enhancement commercials, bar none. And here’s the kicker: scream and curse all you want, World Eater, but the commercial is on before you can dive for the remote or channel button. That means I don’t have control to avoid the crud beforehand, and that, my dear poster, is why I get so angry.
Based on the reactions the FCC is hearing, I’m not the only one with a gripe.
You’re short, your bellybutton sticks out too far, and you’re a terrible burden on your poor mother.
Actually, I applaud the decision to bleep Saving Private Ryan. Had they bleeped the entire movie and fast-forwarded to the scene where Tom Hanks dies, the whole thing would have been drastically improved.
That’s quite enough, Dr. Venkman.
If it was truly family hour, you wouldn’t have your ass planted on the couch in front of the TV watching some of the most vacuous TV programming on the planet.
Yes, all 3 people who wrote unlike letters/E-mails/complaints. :rolleyes:
Sam
Why you little…
Pick up your remote. Change the channel. Better yet? Hit the off button. Read a book to your kids. You’ll be interacting with them far more than staring at a screen. Buy a TiVo. Of course, that might be ending soon, too. [Peg Bundy]Thank you government, kids[/pb]
Okay, please don’t think this is another rant, but a question, as I’m confused-how do these guidelines NOT violate the First Amendment?
Now that is a most excellent point!
That’ll be $14.95+tax for my keyboard, please.
dies
9:00 Monday night is family hour? Who lets their kids stay up to watch MNF? On a school night? On the east coast anyway.
I think that in ten years or less broadcast television and radio will be so outdated that only crap like Rush Limbaugh and The Beverly Hillbillies will be on it. On demand porn will be on every TV menu across America.
Well OK the Beverly Hillbillies isn’t that crappy.
Yep, you are one of 23 who bothered to actually send a letter, 20 of whom could not be bothered to write one themselves.
Do you have a problem with a Viagra add (the one you describe has been pulled from the airwaves by the FDA)? Don’t use Viagra. Contact Pfizer and the station and the producers of the show, tell them you will not watch their shows nor buy their products until they stop showing the add.
I accept those as valid ways of showing dissatisfaction with a product or services. HOWEVER, just because I might be offended by something, I don’t cry to the government to block it from everybody. I am not everybody’s caretaker, and neither should you be.
Cool–can I be the Han Solo of the Carolinas?
Daniel
pretty sure he can’t qualify as Bubba Fett
Based on the ratings, however, most people don’t have a problem with it. CBS got fined a half mil because Janet Jackson has tits, but the same moment that provoked the fine was also, according to Tivo, the single most rewatched moment of television since they started keeping track of that sort of thing. If most people thought like you do, then there wouldn’t be a need for the FCC, because the networks wouldn’t show the stuff you don’t like. Why? Because it wouldn’t make them any money. You don’t like what they show on CBS? Turn the channel. Don’t give CBS any of your attention. Go watch the PAX network, or C-Span, or see if you can find a test pattern to tune in to. We’ve got a free market in this country: use it. Find someone who provides the sort of content you think is “appropriate” and watch that instead, and let the rest of us watch what we want.
Because the fact is, the vast majority of Americans want people like you to shut the fuck up. They like what they see on TV. They want to see Janet Jackson’s tits. They want to see Terrel Owens have pre-martial sex with a hot white chick. They want to see people getting their limbs blown off on a beach in Normandy. But they can’t, because of a miniscule pack of whiny puritans who are purposefully abusing the system to foster their own backdoor censorship on an unwilling and unwitting public.
And that is what I find offensive, because it violates the most important principles upon which this country was founded.