Saturday, November 13, 2004

Irony is everything

ABC and several (up to 65) affiliate stations recently self-censored, by choosing not to show Saving Private Ryan in order to avoid possible FCC indecency rulings.

I was all set to write an article about the Parents Television Council and their statement of "context is everything".

On the surface, this seems reasonable, but consider, for example, their attempt to change the context itself. I'm sure that a definition that can be re-moulded on demand by massive mobilization spurred by the PTC is exactly what they would prefer.

To cut a short article long, Lisa de Moraes has beaten me to the punch.

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