The Titty Police...

[RS Davis]

[glow=red,2,300]RS Davis Wrote:[/glow] "Action must be taken by the entire television and radio industry to heed the public's outcry and take affirmative steps to curb the race to the bottom," Powell said. "This industry simply must help clean up its own room." Yes, because the television industry is not beholden to consumers, otherwise. All that money they spend to track ratings to lure advertisers is really just an exercise in academia.
 
Face it, America. You see what you see on television because that’s what you’ve asked for. A race to the bottom? Sure – that’s where all the viewers live. And we like it here.
 
C’mon people, let’s admit it – we like titties – even Janet’s floppy, squished titties. Two hundred thousand people out of ninety million get pissed off, and the government steps in to deprive the remaining 89,800,000 of the simple pleasures of gratuitous nudity.

- Rick

[RS Davis]

[glow=red,2,300]Broadcast Decency[/glow]

Thanks to Janet Jackson, Justin Timberlake, and the rest of the MTV-produced Super Bowl halftime show, the FCC and both houses of Congress are renewing efforts to crackdown on "indecency" on the airwaves. They are also considering extending content standards to cable networks. On two national TV programs, Reason Editor-in-Chief Nick Gillespie argues against government content controls, saying consumers should be able to select their own entertainment.

CNN: www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0402/05/pzn.00.html

MSNBC: msnbc.msn.com/id/4250374/

[outgirl]

Great job, Rick!

- outgirl

[RS Davis]

outgirl said:

Great job, Rick!

- outgirl

Thank you, outgirl, and welcome aboard!

- Rick

[RS Davis]

"Censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion...In the long run it will create a generation incapable of appreciating the difference between independence of thought and subservience."


[glow=red,2,300]-- Henry Steele Commager
(1902-1998) Historian and author
Source: Freedom, Loyalty and Dissent, 1954[/glow]


"I am really mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, a fact like this can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too, as an offence against religion; that a question about the sale of a
book can be carried before the civil magistrate. Is this then our freedom of religion? and are we to have a censor whose imprimatur shall say what books may be sold, and what we may buy? And who is thus to dogmatize religious opinions for our citizens? Whose foot is to be the measure to which ours are all to be cut or stretched? Is a priest to be our inquisitor, or shall a layman, simple as ourselves, set up his reason as the rule for what we are to read, and what we must believe? It is an insult to our citizens to question whether they are rational beings or not, and blasphemy against religion to suppose it cannot stand the test of truth and reason."


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-- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President
Source: Letter, 19 April 1814[/glow]