On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 1:12 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: It is their station and they can do what they want. If they don't want to > broadcast bad words or "edgy" material, then they should just not carry > SNL. What I strongly criticize them for is running the show, and then > censoring it. I am somewhat less critical if Lorne, or even NBC, decide to > bleep something on the show - they are the one's ultimately deciding on > what kind of show they want to send out. But I think it is very bad form > for third parties to censor the material. It is no different to me than if > Wall Mart pulled out a few objectionable pages from a Dave Chappelle book. > If selling (and making a profit) off of Chappelle is offensive to your > sensibilities, then fine - don't sell it. But don't profit off of it while > fundamentally changing it. >
In this case the Chappelle monologue is available in full on YouTube. In the past, if WRAL censored something that meant the thing did not exist for its audience. Now it takes very little effort to find an uncensored version of that material. That in no way justifies the censorship, it just means that it is becoming irrelevant to the audience. -- -- 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.
