Keep in mind that "nipplegate" was really a microcosm of, and a lightning
rod for, a broader hullabaloo over obscenity and indecency. By the
standards of some, lasciviousness is objectionable for different reasons than
gore.
Some folks find one more objectionable than the other.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 2:06
PM
Subject: [Swprograms] DOUBLE
STANDARDS!
CBS TV is being rightly crucified in the UK by no
less a person than Tony Blair for showing pictures of Princess Diana dying
after the car crash in Paris in 1997. The people who watch American TV
are clearly operating double standards here. Firstly, they round on CBS
for daring to show Janet Jackson's breasts, an incident so trivial it hardly
deserves comment. Yet a couple of months later they sit in front of
their TV screens watching many of the same CBS stations showing the sickening
pictures of Princess Diana. I hope and trust that those of you in the
USA reading this message did not stoop so low as to watch your local CBS
affiliates last night.
Certainly if I was a watcher of CBS TV in the
States I would be writing to my local affiliate leaving them in no doubt that
they should not have shown such pictures, which surely go beyond the
pale!
Now, back to the short-wave
wireless.
PAUL DAVID,
Wembley Park, United
Kingdom
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