If government limits speech, our freedom evaporates
Tennessean
by staff
04/08/08
It is easy these days to look at TV programming and feel the urge to clean house. Crime shows lay out the most grisly of acts committed by real or imaginary violent criminals. Reality shows peer into the most embarrassingly personal details (again, real or imaginary) of the lives of would-be or former celebrities. But when the government decides it should do the cleaning in the name of public decency, everyone should be concerned about where we are headed as a nation. This fall, the U.S. Supreme Court will take up the case of the Federal Communications Commission vs. Fox Television Stations, in which the agency fined Fox over ‘fleeting’ use of profanities on live awards shows aired in 2002 and 2003. … For the record, the profanities were variations on the ‘f-word’ and ’s…,’ uttered by Bono, Nicole Richie and Cher, words this newspaper chooses not to spell out — the operative word for purposes of this editorial being ‘chooses’...
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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by staff
04/08/08
It is easy these days to look at TV programming and feel the urge to clean house. Crime shows lay out the most grisly of acts committed by real or imaginary violent criminals. Reality shows peer into the most embarrassingly personal details (again, real or imaginary) of the lives of would-be or former celebrities. But when the government decides it should do the cleaning in the name of public decency, everyone should be concerned about where we are headed as a nation. This fall, the U.S. Supreme Court will take up the case of the Federal Communications Commission vs. Fox Television Stations, in which the agency fined Fox over ‘fleeting’ use of profanities on live awards shows aired in 2002 and 2003. … For the record, the profanities were variations on the ‘f-word’ and ’s…,’ uttered by Bono, Nicole Richie and Cher, words this newspaper chooses not to spell out — the operative word for purposes of this editorial being ‘chooses’...
http://tinyurl.com/4zcp7u
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
rudkla - 9. Apr, 10:28
