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Originally Posted by kathykd2005
We'd all like to think that our politicians have "better things to spend political capital on" but in most cases, that isn't true. Have you heard of pork barrel spending and pushing one's own agenda? Are we now going to say that politicians are all honest, good people, who only spend time on issues that are "worthwhile"? Does Terry Schiavo ring a bell to any one?
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Who said anything about politicians being honest, good people. They're politicians, for pete's sake. I'm assuming that they will act out of their own best interests. It is not in their best interests politically to expend any effort at all protesting a show on a cable network simply because it presents Greeks in a bad light.
There are a whole lot more Catholics in the US than GLO members -- if politicians aren't taking time to protest shows and movies that portray Catholicism in a bad light (and there are a lots of them), why would they waste their time on this?
And the comparison to Terry Schiavo (which was a fiasco) is just silly.
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And I beg to differ on your definition of censorship. Ratings are censorship, insomuch as they seek to prohibit certain people in society from viewing or listening to certain material.
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Beg away. But believe it or not, words actually have meanings. That is, of course, unless one has gone through the Looking Glass and is talking to Humpty Dumpty, who claimed
"Words mean what I say they mean, nothing more, nothing less."
Seriously, cite me one instance where ratings have "prohibited" anyone from viewing or listening to certain materials. Parental prohibitions don't count. Neither do business-based decisions of the relatively few stores or theaters that do not to sell recordings or tickets to "under-aged" people; that just means they lost your business and you go elsewhere.
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