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Date Posted: 06:15:59 11/21/04 Sun
Author: BDM
Subject: More TV "outrage"

Two incidents have people talking more crackdown on TV. I think it's nonesense. Makes me never want to watch watered down TV anymore & stick with pay TV. We have ratings on everything, we have parental controls-what more is needed? If parents don't supervise their kids, how is that the networks fault? And someone show me a kid who killed, had sex or acted rude ONLY due to watching a TV show.

1. Saving Private Ryan was shown uncut. Speilberg asked that the film be shown this way or not at all same as he did for Schindler's List. He feels these films are too important to be shown edited. Now, there were warnings before it started & at each commercial break but yet people complained. And amazingly they complained about the cursing in the film NOT the violence. Blows my mind. That's how army guys talk OK. Be upset at the high cost soldiers go through in war, not cussing.

2. The Desperate Housewives/MOnday Night Football ad. The NFL probably should have thought twice after what happened at the Superbowl. But regardless, the spot did not have nudity. It had suggested nudity & seduction. Stuff one can see on Desperate Housewives or on day time soap operas. I saw plenty of risque stuff on TV when I was a kid and most of it went over my head. Girls had coodees (sic)then anyway. But of course, we can't allow sex to come between children & the utter violence that is football.

So, go ahead. Make TV bland & watch the ratings drop to nothing. Since the Puritans are in for 4 more years.

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