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Cable's Not Kid-Friendly
Townhall.com ^ | September 11, 2009 | Brent Bozell

Posted on 09/12/2009 3:43:50 AM PDT by Kaslin

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To: Kaslin

While I can’t say I disagree with Brent Bozell’s column etc, there is an ON/OFF switch or you have the right to NOT PURCHASE offending packages, or if something ‘bundled’ in you have to have, use the V Chip or whatever.

Do they lose site of the fact that if they can raise enough hell to get one or two shows off, the people that don’t like your shows have the same right etc...

The government that is able to block South Park(?) will be able to block Rush Limbaugh OR prevent people like Brent Bozell from publishing articles that are critical of them.

The old ‘be careful what you wish for’ holds true here.


21 posted on 09/12/2009 6:39:00 AM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98 )VOTE THE INCUMBENTS OUT)
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To: Kaslin

I read the posts on this thread. The biggest question seems to be WHY DO THEY PUT THIS JUNK ON TV?

One answer is that it is an attempt to lower the moral standards of you and your children.

This then makes it difficult for one to object to the lower morals that the rich and powerful have.

This is one of the reasons major politicians can have male prostitutes working out of their homes, and yet still be among the most powerful men in our country.


The other answer is that they have run out of material. Of all the movies that have come out lately, there are only 1 or 2 that I can think of that aren’t rewrites of something else already done.

So, in order to keep the bucks coming in, they appeal to man’s basest desires.


22 posted on 09/12/2009 9:56:52 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Where's this tagline thing everyone keeps talking about?)
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To: Kaslin

Don’t buy cable - problem solved! We got rid of cable in 2000, don’t miss it. :)


23 posted on 09/12/2009 10:25:42 AM PDT by Marie Antoinette (Proud Clinton-hater since 1998.)
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To: Kaslin

Do people today not know this already? Even most modern kids shows are unnacceptable... I saw an episode of Fairly Odd Parents where the boy was asked by an Aquaman type superhero if he’d “waxed” his “dolphin” yet...


24 posted on 09/12/2009 11:11:38 AM PDT by Awestruck (Now if we can only get the rest of the "republican" leaders to stand up to the liberals.)
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Cable TV is not kid-friendly

It is also decent-adult unfriendly. Some of it is unspeakably vile. Starting with the Viagra commercials.

25 posted on 09/12/2009 2:32:22 PM PDT by my_pointy_head_is_sharp
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