Wednesday, February 23, 2005

Down with obscene programming! Down with decent programming!

Sometimes you have to believe that the gods must appreciate irony. Take the juxtaposition of these two news stories...

-US House sets half-million dollar penalties for on-air obscenity

and

-Conservatives and Rivals Press a Struggling PBS


Conservatives object to obscenity and trash on television, but one of the main TV targets of their ire: the one network that never airs obscenity or trash... even at the risk of being labeled by some as staid and boring.

I get the feeling that some people would like to eliminate television altogether... except for Fox News Channel..

2 comments:

bobo said...

Good golly, I let my boys watch PBS while I make them lunch and the most elitist and liberal things that they have learned involve basic arithmetic and how to sing the A-B-C song in Spanish.

More importantly NH Public TV broadcasts UNH Wildcats games, pretty much the only hockey I see on TV.

It is strange how Public TV is struggling but Public Radio seems to be thriving and growing.

Brian said...

It's worth noting, JD, that the so infamous and over-cited Neville Chamberlain was a Conservative.