On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 2:41 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > > > > > *My expectations were immediately lowered when I sawthe "clean" icon next to > the episode description oniTunes (I suspect that was a condition of the > WhiteHouse). Not that I needed to here the president say"f*ck," but > podcasting is open and free by nature;that "clean" icon tells me there were > limits to whatcould be said. * > > The fact that there was a "clean icon" does not mean > that there was any interference from the White House. > It's merely a rating put on to advise there was no objectionable > material - which seems to be incorrect seeing as how the > Fox "news" people are up in arms that the president > said the "n-word". Maron has said in interviews, most notably > on MSNBC last night, that there were no restrictions placed > on what they could talk about. > I listened to the interview and I think making the episode a "clean" one was decided upon beforehand. At the end Maron had a long list of people to thank and that included some people at iTunes. I think that was an agreement to keep the episode clean in order to make distribution easier - if it stayed rated explicit, anybody wanting to stream or download it from a link would be faced with agreeing to download/stream explicit material and the White House PR did not want that. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
