OT (sort of): CBS revisited

"John Harlow" wrote in message
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| C J Campbell wrote:
| Now the FCC is investigating CBS for broadcasting obscene material.
| BWAHAHAHA!
|
| I guess exposing a breast is obscene,
|
| What the hell is wrong with an entire country where showing a woman's
breast
| is "obscene"?
|
| The USA is such the embarassment to me sometimes; lately more often than
| not.

No matter where you draw the line of decency, there will be people who are
outraged by it. For you it is breasts. Perhaps you have some sort of
fixation? :-)

You have to draw the line somewhere. Personally, I think there is way too
much bare flesh as it is, for both men and women. Everyone seems to want to
go around dressed as some sort of prostitute. Selling sexy clothes, jewelry
and makeup to three year olds is a multi-billion dollar industry in this
country. Now, that really is embarrassing. We spend a fortune fighting child
porn on the one hand and dress kids as porn stars on the other. Talk about a
mixed message....

Maybe I'm just getting old and grouchy, but I long for the days when some
public decorum was expected. It might have been hypocritical on the part of
some, but at least you knew that there were lines you shouldn't cross.

Anyway, I suppose that now we will see it on TV more and more until it
becomes accepted. Then the yahoos will be complaining that it is
embarrassing that we don't allow hard core porn to be broadcast on TV. Allen
Bloom wrote once wrote that patriots made enormous sacrifices to protect
freedom, the best minds were marshaled to develop the most advanced
technology, loving parents scraped and sacrificed, and for what? So that
some eight year old can listen to a drag queen sing the praises of onanism
and murdering parents on his own CD player. What will future generations
think? Bloom noted that a society's greatest excesses always seem normal to
itself. Perhaps our television of today will seem as barbaric and
uncivilized to some future generation as the Roman circuses seem to us.