If you read me, you know that I hate censorship of any kind. I sympathize with what parents have to deal with raising kids in today’s environment but I don’t want that to encroach on good and ok even bad art. But here is where I draw the line:
What in the world is That 70’s Show doing on the ABC Family Channel? Shouldn’t Full House be edgy for that station? Show whatever you want, but don’t label it the Family Channel – pick a side and stay on it.
Perhaps some money hungry executive at Disney figured that since it has a family in it that it is appropriate for their demographic.
I love the show, but on the Family Channel?
I just watched a random episode and here are things that might seem objectionable to family groups.
Tommy Chong
Ashton Kutcher
Numerous scenes of marijuana use.
Numerous scenes of alcohol use.
Sexual innuendo.
Gay sexual innuendo.
Numerous uses of the word “ass”
Half of me thinks that this is sort of funny – the other half thinks that if they made enough money by doing it that the Family Channel would show hard core pornography.
That’s the problem with the FCC – they shouldn’t be going after profanity on adult radio shows. They should be going after the blatant mislabeling of products. But then again ABC/ESPN//Disney is a huge conglomerate and as we know the FCC loves those – despite the fact that part of it’s purpose should be the prevention of said domination of the media by huge entities.
It’s like we’re in Bizarro World here.
