November 11, 2004
fcc rules!
ABC affiliates are so freaked by the FCC that some won't broadcast Saving Private Ryan. Spielberg and ABC won't allow the broadcast to be edited for content, or aired outside of primetime.
"Would the FCC conclude that the movie has sufficient social, artistic, literary, historical or other kinds of value that would protect us from breaking the law?" [ABC Affiliate in Des Moines, IA] WOI-TV President Raymond Cole said in a statement appearing on its Web site. "With the current FCC, we just don't know."Janice Wise, spokeswoman for the FCC's enforcement bureau, told Reuters it had received calls from broadcasters asking if the film would run afoul of the agency's indecency rules. Wise said the commission was barred from making a decision before the broadcast "because that would be censorship."
"If we get a complaint, we'll act on it," she said.
But at least one watchgroup group that has urged the FCC to levy harsher fines for questionable programming said the broadcast should go ahead.
The group, the Parents Television Council, said in a statement on its Web site that "context is everything."
via cnn
Posted by brad at November 11, 2004 01:44 PM | TrackBackComments
what's next? showing film classics such as Dr. Strangelove? Apocalypse Now? We can't just have artists depicting war being shown on television! We can't even have the non-fictitious representations of war being shown on our news programs! We must protect our children from understanding that war is really bad.
Posted by: kellee at November 11, 2004 04:08 PM
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