More on the censors and Saving Private Ryan:
From The Journal News:
“Ryan” is an hours-long treatise on selflessness — which is to say that it stands apart from the television chiefs who Thursday decided to buck ABC network plans to run the film. Without a shot being fired, more than a dozen stations across the nation buckled under financial pressure — the mere hint of fines — and decided to air something else. They might as well have run and hid at Omaha Beach.
Ellis Henican in Newsday:
viewers in Dallas, Atlanta, Phoenix, Orlando and a bunch of other American cities got to fill their evenings with socially uplifting fare like “The Apprentice” (NBC) and “Survivor: Vanuatu – Islands of Fire” (CBS). Instead of experiencing this gripping film about courage, loss and humanity, they were snickering at some pushy moron getting fired by Donald Trump or watching some dimwit being dismissed from the tribe.
This is protecting us from … what?
Ken Schram from KOMO TV:
I honestly don’t know who’s more at fault for this stupidity.
The FCC?
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How about those simpering, whimpering broadcasters?
They regularly air crap that doesn’t tweak what conscience they might have, but an honest depiction of war leaves them legally queasy.
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for all the veterans who fought and died preserving freedom; for all those who are fighting and dying today, I wish Private Ryan could have been saved for you.
Instead, we’re becoming a nation of the self-righteous and self-absorbed who’d better start looking to save ourselves.
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