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Originally posted by Faceman:
The term "self-censorship" DOES exist. It is when an author, a publisher or in this case a TV station eliminates critical passages from his/her/their work to avoid negative consequences.
When for example in a dictatorship authors "voluntarily" only wrtie hagiographies about the dicatator instead of criticising him/her, because they know that if they write open criticism
1. the book will get censored anyway
2. they will face grave punishment
In this case CBS choose to self-censor its program to avoid getting heat from the Bush administration just as Comedy Central did when cancelling "That's my Bush".
The only difference here is that CC canceled a program that cost money (allegedly because of the high costs) and CBS refused a program that would make them money, which leaves no excuses here. [/QB]
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No arguement here that CBS's refusal(sp?) of income is dumb, Like I wrote earlier left winger's money spends just as good as right-winger's money.
Cerek, "John Hale" ROTFLMAO I love it [img]smile.gif[/img]