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Ridiculous Tv censorship

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Ok so i caught parts of Meet the Fockers on ABC the other day.. a movie I think is pretty funny.. anyway would you believe the censors cut out the word Foreskin in one of the dialogues??? And in another scene there is a scene where Robert Dinero put on a fake breast to breast feed his grandson and the censors whited out the fake nipple.

What is going on in this country?
 
The networks are just trying to stay on the air. They're forced to toe a much more conservative line than any other outlet. I'm honestly surprised they left in the scene at all.

Lex
 
mikesurf said:
Ok so i caught parts of Meet the Fockers on ABC the other day.. a movie I think is pretty funny.. anyway would you believe the censors cut out the word Foreskin in one of the dialogues??? And in another scene there is a scene where Robert Dinero put on a fake breast to breast feed his grandson and the censors whited out the fake nipple.

What is going on in this country?
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What's wrong with this country is that the powers that be love to ruin perfectly good movies...

...and it depends on which network you catch it on. I saw it on TV and I heard the foreskin comment, and I was like: "They can say foreskin on TV? Sweet!" They never blurred or whited out the fake nipple either. I can't, for the life of me, seem to remember what channel I saw it on. Maybe FX? Maybe Comedy Central?

It really bothers me when I see films get mangled by the PC convention. On the other hand, I usually prefer to listen to music as it's presented via radio. I'm weird... sue me ;).
 
I recently saw The Simpsons Movie on a flight and they put a black censor bar over Bart's nude-skateboarding scene. That seemed just a tad puritanical to me.
 
That's way I refuse to watch movies on the local network stations. They ruin the movie by cutting out scenes and censoring certain things.
 
Too bad they wouldn't be so judicious when it comes to some of those stupid commercials.
 
Geez, you folks make it sound like there used to be full-frontal gay sex on the networks, and Bush ran the clock back.

The main broadcast networks are under the jursidiction of the FCC , a governmental agency. This is because the network channels go out "over the air", and thus are considered part of the public trust. If at any time the FCC feels the networks or stations are not operating under the public trust, they can have their licenses revoked or smacked with huge fines.

Because of this, the networks are always going to be extremely conservative. The word "ass" finally got to network TV in the late 80s. I remember there being a modest outcry when a 12-year-old say "you suck" on network TV sometime in the early 90s. I don't know if any fines resulted, but you can bet the networks stopped nudging the envelope forward for a few years after that. And all this happened while cable channels said anything they damn well felt like.

The networks are, by their very nature, puritanical. They're required to be the home of "safe programming for the whole family". I don't have a problem with the word "foreskin", but I can picture a conservative parent having some issues with it, so out it comes. Censorship? Yes. But required in order for network viewing. If you've got issues with it, there's a thousand other television channels to choose from.

Lex
 
^^Well, the fact that Bush has packed the FCC with right-wing loonies doesn't help things.

Last week they fined ABC 1.4 million dollars for a scene in NYPD Blue (which went off the air five years ago) for showing a woman's naked backside.

They claimed it was to protect children from indeceny.

NYPD Blue showed guys naked backsides all the time, but never got fined for that.
 
The folks behind "Meet The Fokkers" had to find someone with the actual name surname Fokker before the censors would let them call the movie that. Apparently they never heard of the Fokker Bi-plane.

Dumb Fokkers...
 
Ohiospeedo said:
That's way I refuse to watch movies on the local network stations. They ruin the movie by cutting out scenes and censoring certain things.
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Not to mention ruining perfectly good credits at the end, by blaring promos for Survivor or CSI over the credits music, while squishing the credits into something that becomes totally unreadable.
 
G-Lexington said:
The main broadcast networks are under the jursidiction of the FCC , a governmental agency.
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And of course all five Commissioners are appointed by George W. Bush...or at least serve with his blessing. So indeed, via this mechanism, George Bush does his best at turning back the clock...

I'm not sure if any of the five Commissioners are "holdovers" from the Bill Clinton era.
 
i've noticed that if the line is "god damn" it is modified to "gosh damn."

honestly i think that's rather silly...
 
You gotta love Canada where we're warned about nudity, sexuality and coarse language in a movie that on TV is rated PG.
 
Unfortunately, Democrats have really been no better when it comes to censoring the media. Does anybody else remember Tipper Gore's crusade against obscene music?

The whole dialog on this issue is totally ridiculous. I was living in Germany at the time of "Nipplegate" (aka Janet Jackson's Superbowl half-time wardrobe malfunction). I'd never been so embarrassed of being American in my entire life as when that went down. Everybody was totally freaking out about what happened. There were no voices in the mainstream media that would even say something like "Well, it's just a breast and was an accident. No big deal." No, politicians on both sides of the aisle were milking it for all it was worth and falling over each other in calling for fines against the network.

Nudity on television just whips a huge fraction of the public up into giant tizzy. Most people are so closed minded on the whole thing that they'd never even consider for a moment that it's completely unnecessary and ridiculous.
 
josher said:
...They claimed it was to protect children from indeceny...
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Gotta love the American's topsy-turvey perspective. Show a naked female arse on TV? No way. Show people getting blown away or Fred Phelps and his gang of loonies waving placards of hate speech? Yeah, course we can show that. #-o
 
In June of 1976, Gone With the Wind had its television debut. Rhett Butler's famous line, "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn." became: "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a darn."

Some things never change.
 
Why do you think most people have cable now? We love all the violence and sex on TV and movies. Thats one of the reasons I dont watch much anymore (well that and the writer's strike stopped alot of the shows I liked).
 
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