Comments on: On the First Amendment front http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/07/29/on-the-first-amendment-front/ by Jeff Jarvis Wed, 03 Dec 2008 07:01:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Falstaff http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/07/29/on-the-first-amendment-front/#comment-99656 Falstaff Mon, 31 Jul 2006 14:59:02 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2006/07/29/on-the-first-amendment-front/#comment-99656 At last the networks are challenging this outrageous government nannyism. Bravo to them! It's high time that our government realized that parents and individuals already have the necessary ratings and tools to make and enforce their own TV viewing decisions. Don't give the government control of your TV remote - check out TV Watch at www.televisionwatch.org. At last the networks are challenging this outrageous government nannyism. Bravo to them! It’s high time that our government realized that parents and individuals already have the necessary ratings and tools to make and enforce their own TV viewing decisions.

Don’t give the government control of your TV remote - check out TV Watch at http://www.televisionwatch.org.

]]> By: Eider http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/07/29/on-the-first-amendment-front/#comment-98699 Eider Sun, 30 Jul 2006 09:53:26 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2006/07/29/on-the-first-amendment-front/#comment-98699 ..lack of reality?.. What the fuck..! And i know we don't want that but the FCC did so bad when they raised the payment..! C'mon it was LIVE meaning they can't have control on what happened! So that what i think bout this topic.. And remenber that i don't even live there so.. and FYI i'm agains them just that i was playing real and so should u! ..lack of reality?.. What the fuck..! And i know we don’t want that but the FCC did so bad when they raised the payment..! C’mon it was LIVE meaning they can’t have control on what happened! So that what i think bout this topic.. And remenber that i don’t even live there so.. and FYI i’m agains them just that i was playing real and so should u!

]]> By: Eider http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/07/29/on-the-first-amendment-front/#comment-98697 Eider Sun, 30 Jul 2006 09:48:42 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2006/07/29/on-the-first-amendment-front/#comment-98697 Well, u know that i'm from Venezuela and comparate the FCC's laws and the ones that r here or for that matters in Latin America and u practicly are watching like porn on broadcast tv cause in the laws here they can't even say "ass" or "fag" or "pussy" or "idiot" huh, i know! so guys just think of it like the FCC' well being 4 kids.. Cause imagine to answer to ur 4 year kid what is oral sex cause he/she heard that word on Grey's Anatomy or Desperate Housewives, huh? I mean, opens networks should be "less allowed" to say some words or show some scenes etc.. I'm not saying that the FCC's right but C'mon! U have to reconogized but showin actually the entire left boob on national/open broadcast..! I mean, just Saying that the FCC has solid plan.! And if the PBS want to do a documentary who's "real" by using some words well do it straight to video or do some contract with cable networks cause that can be use as excuse just imagind "we wanna be able to say fuck u or screw u just cause the documentary is lack of rea Well, u know that i’m from Venezuela and comparate the FCC’s laws and the ones that r here or for that matters in Latin America and u practicly are watching like porn on broadcast tv cause in the laws here they can’t even say “ass” or “fag” or “pussy” or “idiot” huh, i know! so guys just think of it like the FCC’ well being 4 kids.. Cause imagine to answer to ur 4 year kid what is oral sex cause he/she heard that word on Grey’s Anatomy or Desperate Housewives, huh? I mean, opens networks should be “less allowed” to say some words or show some scenes etc.. I’m not saying that the FCC’s right but C’mon! U have to reconogized but showin actually the entire left boob on national/open broadcast..! I mean, just Saying that the FCC has solid plan.! And if the PBS want to do a documentary who’s “real” by using some words well do it straight to video or do some contract with cable networks cause that can be use as excuse just imagind “we wanna be able to say fuck u or screw u just cause the documentary is lack of rea

]]> By: The Zero Boss: Where “parenting” is a stream of four-letter words by Jay Andrew Allen : : Sugar Rush: The “George W. Bush is Still an Asshole” Link Roundup for July 29th http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/07/29/on-the-first-amendment-front/#comment-98345 The Zero Boss: Where “parenting” is a stream of four-letter words by Jay Andrew Allen : : Sugar Rush: The “George W. Bush is Still an Asshole” Link Roundup for July 29th Sat, 29 Jul 2006 17:16:08 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2006/07/29/on-the-first-amendment-front/#comment-98345 [...] Jeff Jarvis says PBS is fighting to keep an obscenity in a Ken Burns doc. And yet Melanie is still shit out of luck. Nice. [...] [...] Jeff Jarvis says PBS is fighting to keep an obscenity in a Ken Burns doc. And yet Melanie is still shit out of luck. Nice. [...]

]]> By: The Zero Boss http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/07/29/on-the-first-amendment-front/#comment-98330 The Zero Boss Sat, 29 Jul 2006 16:04:47 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2006/07/29/on-the-first-amendment-front/#comment-98330 Fuck PBS, Jeff. Their fighting for Burns is hypocrisy <a href="http://thezeroboss.com/2006/07/26/the-melanie-martinez-hypocrisy/" rel="nofollow">until they reinstate Melanie Martinez</a>. Fuck PBS, Jeff. Their fighting for Burns is hypocrisy until they reinstate Melanie Martinez.

]]> By: Robert Feinman http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/07/29/on-the-first-amendment-front/#comment-98321 Robert Feinman Sat, 29 Jul 2006 15:21:23 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2006/07/29/on-the-first-amendment-front/#comment-98321 Congress seems focused on passing legislation that won't make it through both houses or that is patently unconstitutional. This achieves two aims, it gives the right something to point to as an "accomplishment" in the upcoming campaign season and it keeps them busy while the avoid dealing with the real issues facing the country, you know, small things like the wars or the economy or health care or decaying infrastructure. Congress seems focused on passing legislation that won’t make it through both houses or that is patently unconstitutional.

This achieves two aims, it gives the right something to point to as an “accomplishment” in the upcoming campaign season and it keeps them busy while the avoid dealing with the real issues facing the country, you know, small things like the wars or the economy or health care or decaying infrastructure.

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