First of all, if you're wondering why I'm posting a Breitbart editorial, it's because of yesterday's
thread regarding the Washington Post article "
Abstinence-only programs might work, study says", in which I posted. There was some interesting discussion going down on that thread suggesting that we liberals might as well not be so right after all regarding sexual abstinence. Even with the changing attitudes of the people and overwhelming scientific progress, the American puritan radical religious right-wing anti-sex movement
STILL is breathing.
Charlie Richards, a screenwriter with 20 years experience and whose credentials include an upcoming CBS sitcom
House Rules responds to this
USA Today article from Jan. 20, "
Sex on TV: It's increasingly uncut — and unavoidable".
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/crichards/2010/02/03/smut-tv-hollywood-doubles-down-on-their-crusade-to-sexualize-your-children/(WARNING: If you're overly sensitive to right-wing blog brainwash, grab a barf bag or a DVD of
. Or run away.)
A USA Today story informs us “Viewers are about to see full-frontal male nudity, heterosexual, homosexual and group sex, and graphic scenes rarely — if ever — seen on mainstream TV.”
A few years back, I got a real taste for how silly Hollywood’s obsession with force feeding America a steady diet of filth had become. I sat across from a Fox Family exec, pitching programs for kids. I’d been in this chair many times and the result was always the same: “Thanks. Love ‘em. Won’t work. Let’s have you back soon.”
Why’d the guy keep calling me back in? And why did I keep returning? I’m not sure which of us was most guilty of wasting time.
Finally, one day, I blurted out what should have been asked long before: “What do you want from me?”
“Something like Action” I was told.
Action was a Fox sitcom created by Chris Thompson originally intended for HBO. In it, Jay Mohr played a troubled character patterned after producer Joel Silver. Thompson insisted they leave the foul language in the program, and just bleep it out for prime time.
--snip--
Mainstream TV is becoming the slums of Amsterdam.
One TV exec called it an “arms race.” Later in the story, Parents Television Council president Tim Winter said “Families are under siege, teenage girls are under siege. You don’t know what the cultural impact will be down the road.”
And they don’t care. They simply don’t care.
Then University media observer Paul Levinson coughs up two moronic clichés in what appears to be back to back sentences. One: TV mirrors society. Two: “If people are offended, there’s a simple remedy: Don’t watch.”
Why is it sleazy sex is the only area where defenders of television say it mirrors life? Why not show more Republicans? Or non idiotic Christians?
And these days, you can’t get television without cable. Telling me I can just turn it off is like me putting acid in half your food and saying you don’t have to eat it.
Wow. I hear that BS comparison all the time. First of all, TV and food are served NOT in the same manners.
Continuing the trend toward grade school logic, Doug Herzog, president of MTV Networks entertainment group, said “The line moves every day, so you got to move with it. You can’t put the genie back in the bottle.”
Yes you can, Doug. And you have before. The cigarette smoking genie has been shoved back in. So has the conservative genie. Oh, and remember the genie that actually was on the side of corporate America? Crammed back in the bottle with a pitch fork.
What? "The genie that actually was on the side of corporate America" is gone? What about the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission case?
I wonder how Richards feels about all the uber-expensive, dishonest, pro-abstinence, arrogant, mind-sheltering propaganda that the Bush administration has been pumping into public schools throughout the decade. Perhaps our children wouldn't have been so tempted into sex if conservatives hadn't been making such a big deal outta it.
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