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Originally Posted by MysticCat
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.
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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How is the comparison to Terry Schiavo silly? I think it illustrates beautifully just how many mundane ways our country's politicians waste time. However you want to look at it, tv ratings and channel blocks are censorship. I will cite you a specific example, which actually DID happen to me when I was living in VA. Whether you want to believe it or not, there are A LOT more places that don't sell certain products to teenagers than you would think. I was turned away from buying a certain cd, also from attending a certain movie, and once even prohibited from buying a lighter. Again, all of these instances happened when I was under-aged, but they still occurred, whether you want to admit it or not. Again, agree to disagree. If you want to believe that there is NO CENSORSHIP in America, go ahead and do so.
I think your citation of Humpty Dumpty is fitting, because some people prefer to live in a nursery-rhyme world. In case you didn't know, nursery rhymes also have hidden meanings, just like fairy tales. Humpty Dumpty, as it seems, was actually a cannon and alludes to the conflict between Puritans and Cavaliers in England. Interestingly, Puritans are also where Americans got the idea for censorship, for which we are so often criticized by Europeans.
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