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To: jwparkerjr
That's true. I point out how few people ever objected to the depiction I saw live, as it happened, on TV of the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald.

A nekkid backside is hardly in the same league.

14 posted on 01/27/2008 12:38:43 PM PST by muir_redwoods (Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopechne is walking around free)
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To: muir_redwoods
The shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald was news, at its best. News has always had a much wider latitude when it comes to showing unpleasant scenes.

The scenes that bother me are the ones where someone is begging for their life and the killer is shown enjoying the control they have over the victim.

The people who make these films and reap the huge profits from them always counter complaints by saying something like “Come on, it’s just entertainment. Everyone knows it’s not for real.” But then they turn right around and spend hundreds of millions of dollars for ads on the Super Bowl. Come on, if what people see on the screen has no effect on the way they behave why are they spending billions of dollars a year on advertising? What’s the difference between glorifying running from the cops in The Dukes of Hazzard, or street racing in a full length movie that touts the thrill of it and convincing people that their love life will improve is they use a certain after shave?

Can’t have it both ways!

16 posted on 01/27/2008 1:50:29 PM PST by jwparkerjr (Sigh . . .)
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