A Company of Soldiers
PBS will be airing what is being billed as an important documentary on the Iraq war seen through a group of US soldiers. It's a Frontline show, whose journalism I find to be well done. Anyway since this is a real life, gritty realization of the kind of shit our soldiers go through to police the cities in the Sunni triangle, there is a fair amount of curse words uttered. Since everyone is afraid of the big bad wolf, FCC, Frontline has an editted version where the cursing is editted out. This is to be distributed to the more “conservative“ areas of the country or where the Parents Television Council (PTC) will be watching. This group should of course be nuked but since private citizens are not allowed to nuke each other we have to deal with these assholes. According to this article the number of FCC complaints hovered around 350 a year until the PTC figured out to manipulate the system. In 2003 there were 240,000 complaints, of which 99.8% of them were from these nazis. So is this democracy? A pinhead small minority is dictating to us what we can and can't view? I looked at the PTC website and I can't believe the content. They actually have streaming video available to ANYONE regardless of age of what they consider the worst tv clips of the week. Un-fricking-believable! What a bunch of hypocrites! In any case this is show about war, where people die and are maimed in real life, it's rough and it's real. Anyone offended by cursing will probably not be watching this, nor do I expect children to sit down and watch a news program about war. It's a relative thing folks, not absolute you ninnys. You know the ironic thing here is that Americans claim to love tv reality shows, yet apparently some of them don't really care to watch real reality. What does that say about us?