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...that recent example shows, it sometimes seems as if the Janet Jackson aftermath changed very little. It has--but in scattershot and inconsistent ways. In November, 65 ABC affiliates refused to air the uncut war movie Saving Private Ryan because of its profanity--although it had run without incident twice before. "It's a shame people couldn't see this patriotic film," said former Democratic presidential candidate General Wesley Clark, criticizing the FCC for waiting until February to rule that the film was not indecent. "They deserve an opportunity to see as much of the unvarnished truth as possible." (Even...
...Expression, calls this "regulation by raised eyebrow. If it goes too far, it gets out of hand. Then the government is at risk of acting beyond its constitutional powers." And that chill can have effects far beyond what the FCC is empowered to do directly. Says Shield creator Shawn Ryan: "There will be things that we will never see, that are victims of this mind-set. Nobody is really brave enough to take away the shows that people love. But it will have an effect on shows that the networks look at and decide aren't even worth producing...
...Original Song from a Film "f___ing brilliant." In October 2003, the FCC ruled that the expletive was not indecent, because Bono was not describing a sex act. The following March, the commission reversed itself, though it did not fine NBC. After the ABC affiliates passed on Saving Private Ryan--which uses the same expletive in the same nonliteral way--the commission said the film was not indecent because of its critical praise and wartime context...
Down 2-1 and with captain Noah Welch already in the box for tripping, the Crimson allowed Cornell’s Daniel Pegoraro to slip past the defense in the neutral zone and streak towards Grumet-Morris before assistant captain Ryan Lannon finally intervened. Gaining on him as Pegoraro neared the net, Lannon hurled himself to the ice and stretched out to poke the puck away before crashing into the Big Red forward’s legs, drawing a penalty from the officials...
...thought that Ryan had separated the puck from [Pegoraro],” Donato said. “It used to be that if you separated the puck from the player first, and then the trip ensued, that it wasn’t a trip because the puck was separated. And my understanding is that if the puck is separated for an instant and then the trip follows a second or two after, then it’s still a clean play...