It's About Free Speech

[John D Harris]

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]

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]

[Cerek the Barbaric]

Originally posted by John D Harris: Cerek, "John Hale" ROTFLMAO I love it [img]smile.gif[/img]

Oooooops! Sorry about that. [img]graemlins/blush.gif[/img] I had a serious Brain Cramp while making that post and simply could not remember your last name. I knew it started with "H", but that was as far as I could get.

Since I couldn't come up with the right name, I figured that one would be just as appropriate.

Glad you liked it.