Tom Shales Hails Moyers, Wails for Sally Field
By Tim Graham December 30, 2007 - 23:35 ET
In his review of television for the year 2007, Washington Post TV critic Tom Shales bitterly recounted Fox's allegedly political censorship of actress Sally Field at the Emmy Awards, when she said if mothers ran the world, there would be no "goddamned wars." Shales complained that the lack of profanity "befouled" the airwaves: (Yes -- that sounds sane to me)
The Emmy Awards were marred by a dark and perhaps portentous moment that also involved an unexpected -- and in this case, totally unwarranted -- silence. Sally Field was accepting a prize and talking about mothers and war when suddenly the Fox censor chose to delete some of her words before they could go out to America on the time-delayed telecast.
Fox used the absurd FCC crackdown on "obscenity" as its excuse, but (to Shales) the action smacked of political censorship and seriously befouled the American airwaves.
Sheesh -- NO WONDER the libs hate Fox News -- now I understand completely.
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If mothers ran the world, we'd all be dying from the effects of overpopulation. You know- famine, disease and so forth. Maybe it's just me, but I'll take a bullet over 6 months of subsistence before dying from starvation.
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