CBS Appeals FCC Indecency Rules
November 21st, 2006 9:51 AM
On the flipside of Stephen Spielberg’s call for less violence on television, CBS is appealing one of the FCC’s rules concerning profanity. According to an article in Tuesday’s Hollywood Reporter (h/t to Drudge, emphasis mine throughout):CBS told a federal court Monday that the government's new "zero tolerance" policy for indecent broadcasts is threatening to choke off free speech.In its opening…
Steven Spielberg Calls For Less Violence on Television
November 21st, 2006 9:16 AM
Here’s something you don’t see every day: a high-ranking member of the entertainment media publicly admonishing folks in his own industry. Yet, according to a Reuters article Monday (h/t to Drudge), one of the most successful movie producers and directors of all time is speaking out against excessive violence on television:Steven Spielberg urged TV networks to be mindful of what they show on the…
CNN: Hear No WMD, See No WMD, Speak No WMD
November 4th, 2006 8:14 PM
In the exhaustive search for WMDs in Iraq, CNN has left all stones unturned. These are the words right out of the mouth of CNN reporter Jane Arraf: And if you had a bureau there, like we did, and it was a known bureau and a known company like CNN was, it was a beacon for everybody. It was a beacon for Iraqis who believed they had stories. Iraqis would show up, there would be Iraqis lined up…
China Moves to Ban Anonymous Blogging
October 25th, 2006 1:32 AM
This story from the PRC's propaganda wire, Xinhua won't likely get much play in the leftist world which believes that Chimpybushitlerhalliburtonfoleyisgay is the real threat to world-wide free speech. China is continuing its crackdown on opposing free speech, this time,
signaling that it will move toward forcing anyone who wants to make a
blog do so under their real names, making it easier to…
Art Imitates Real Life: Liberals Attack Zucker's Spoof, but Here's Alb
October 14th, 2006 1:45 PM
As previously reported by NewsBusters editor Matt Sheffield and others, FNC’s Special Report with Brit Hume on Thursday evening noted how YouTube users had ganged up to flag as “inappropriate” a humorous 90-second video by director David Zucker that mocks the Democrats for their approach to international bad guys like Osama bin Laden and Kim Jong-Il.Zucker’s video begins with a shot of an actress…
Department of Interior Blocking Conservative Blogs, Not Liberal Ones
October 11th, 2006 4:31 PM
It’s getting even stranger, folks. Little Green Footballs has posted a reader’s e-mail concerning the Department of the Interior actually blocking conservative websites from the computers of employees that work for it:I’m a long-time reader, without ever actually commenting on anything. Yesterday the U.S. Department of the Interior (I work for the Mineral Management Service) installed blocking…
YouTube Censors Anti-Dem 'Scary Movie' Commercial
October 10th, 2006 7:06 PM
The video sharing site YouTube, just recently purchased by Google, has once again allowed a band of determined users to censor something they don't like.The latest casualty is a a controversial spoof political ad by a Republican filmmaker David Zucker (producer of such films as "Scary Movie 4," "Airplane," among others) which depicts former secretary of state Madeline Albright, a Democrat who…
Book Reportedly Cancelled Over Fears of Muslim Violence
September 30th, 2006 12:15 PM
Rioting and threats of violence from Muslim extremists have apparently triumphed once again over the First Amendment. According to psychoanalyst Dr. Nancy Kobrin and noted feminist Phyllis Chesler, who wrote the introduction, Kobrin's new book, "The Sheikh's New Cloth: The Naked Truth about Islamic Suicide Terrorism", was to be published in November by Looseleaf Law Publications, Inc., but Dr.…
