{"id":478,"date":"2004-11-28T10:04:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-28T05:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=478"},"modified":"2004-11-28T10:04:00","modified_gmt":"2004-11-28T05:04:00","slug":"decent-article-on-censorship-in-the-ny-times-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=478","title":{"rendered":"Decent article on censorship in the NY Times today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re willing to endure a soul-sucking registration, you can read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/11\/28\/arts\/28rich.html?oref=login\">Frank Rick&#8217;s article<\/a> on the bogus scams currently being run by the FCC against the  first amendment.  He begins:<\/p>\n<p><em>Oh the poor, suffering little children.  If we are to believe the outcry of the past two weeks, America&#8217;s youth have been defiled en masse &#8211; again.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And proceeds to make just about every salient point that I&#8217;ve heard made about the complete and utter lunacy of the current attempts to make the daytime airwaves save for the children.  Summary:  We&#8217;re not dealing with an honest attempt to clean things up.  We&#8217;re dealing with pageantry designed to make us watch <b>more<\/b> TV.<\/p>\n<p>My very favorite line:  <em> As in the Jackson case, we are also asked to believe that pro football is what Pat Buchanan calls &#8220;the family entertainment, the family sports show&#8221; rather than what it actually is: a Boschian jamboree of bumping-and-grinding cheerleaders, erectile-dysfunction pageantry and, as Don Imus puts it, &#8220;wife-beating drug addicts slamming the hell out of each other&#8221; on the field.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re willing to endure a soul-sucking registration, you can read Frank Rick&#8217;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&#8217;s youth have been defiled en masse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}