"Without censorship of television, how else can you, the American public, have the protection you want from vulgar scenes, over-exposed bodies, and all the other sights you like to see?" In his article written to the American people, 1960's comedian Patrick Paulsen supports censorship of television shows. He claims "Censorship is not Unconstitutional. Censors have the right to censor what you hear. The Bill of Rights says nothing about Freedom of Hearing." The reason why this article is relevant and interesting is that Paulson had his own show on TV which was often censored. ". . . the censors on our show are not unreasonable. . ." he says. "Censorship does not interfere with the constitutional right of every American to sit alone in the dark, in the nude and cuss."
Although this article is from the 60's, and a lot has obviously changed, i still say that it is up to the television station to decide what they want to put on, and decide if it should be censored or not. The problem i have is with the lack of reporting on more important issues such as the war on poverty or the war in the Middle East. In a way, corporate networks are censoring what they don't want us to hear by putting other, less important things on TV. Hopefully someday people will become more straight-forward, but until then people have to form their own opinions and search for the answers they want.
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I think that it's a good idea that they do censored TV shows because their are little kids watching it and it would just show them things they really do not need to see. In some shows i watch they have different rules of censorship like on Janice Dickinson show about modeling they do show the rear ends of models and on MTV they censor that out like on The Real World.
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