If you’re willing to endure a soul-sucking registration, you can read Frank Rick’s article on the bogus scams currently being run by the FCC against the first amendment. He begins:
Oh the poor, suffering little children. If we are to believe the outcry of the past two weeks, America’s youth have been defiled en masse – again.
And proceeds to make just about every salient point that I’ve heard made about the complete and utter lunacy of the current attempts to make the daytime airwaves save for the children. Summary: We’re not dealing with an honest attempt to clean things up. We’re dealing with pageantry designed to make us watch more TV.
My very favorite line: As in the Jackson case, we are also asked to believe that pro football is what Pat Buchanan calls “the family entertainment, the family sports show” rather than what it actually is: a Boschian jamboree of bumping-and-grinding cheerleaders, erectile-dysfunction pageantry and, as Don Imus puts it, “wife-beating drug addicts slamming the hell out of each other” on the field.
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