November 15, 2004
Ahem
Stop Censoring Me, You Lousy %#*&!"Right-Wing Moralists Launch Censor War" blares a headline in Scotland's Sunday Herald. "America's freedom of speech is under attack. Mickey Mouse and Private Ryan had better watch out, says Ros Davidson in Los Angeles." Davidson's article warns of "an attack on American popular culture, which is accelerating following George Bush's re-election."
In the course of recounting the "attack" on free speech, Davidson cites this example:
Two months after the Janet Jackson incident, which also involved singer Justin Timberlake, NBC ran up against the FCC. Rock star Bono, from the band U2, said "f***" during the live broadcast of the Golden Globe Awards.
Those asterisks aren't ours; we use hyphens when quoting an unprintable word. So why doesn't Davidson's article include the actual word? America's right-wing censors are everywhere, it seems. They even edit left-wing newspapers in Scotland!
Posted by Karol at November 15, 2004 02:45 PM | TrackBack
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Bono gave the commencement speech at the University of Pennsylvania this year and promised to use only one four letter word: P-E-N-N.
http://www.upenn.edu/almanac/between/2004/commence-b.html
I'm pretty sure that he stuck to it...
Posted by: Princess Anonymous at November 15, 2004 02:52 PMOne is self-editing for taste and discretion. The other is a whopping multimillion dollar fine from the government that controls your license to broadcast. Guess which one is "censorship."
I now invite Von Bek to discourse on the irrationality, nay immorality, of the government doling out broadcast licenses. Bonus points if he uses a historical example OTHER THAN the railroads.
Posted by: ugarte at November 15, 2004 03:26 PMActually I was just going to wonder when NBC got their hands back on the NFL so I could ponder where I could now watch Arena Football.
Posted by: Von Bek at November 15, 2004 03:35 PM
