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Fox Censors Antiwar Comment During Emmy Awards

By Manila Ryce
Published Monday, September 17th, 2007, 7:42 am
Filed under: Human Rights, Videos: Political, Videos: Other, Society/Culture: Civil Unrest, War, Society/Culture, World Issues, Entertainment, Videos

“…I am proud to be one of those women. If mothers ruled the world, there would be no god damned wars in the first place.”

The italicized part of that last sentence is what Fox awkwardly cut out of Sally Field’s acceptance speech. Crooks and Liars has the video. Such a blatant move to silence free speech would be easily challenged under the Fairness Doctrine, which states that the rights of viewers and listeners are paramount to those of broadcasters. Dennis Kucinich wants to reinstate this doctrine. Vote accordingly.

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5 Responses to “Fox Censors Antiwar Comment During Emmy Awards”

  1. Well, this woman has obviously never even cracked open a history book. Has she not heard of Catherine the Great? Queen Elizabeth? Queen Victory? Joan of Arc? Give me a break. I have no problem with censoring the ignorance of a stupid celebrity.

    KazigluBey
    09/17/07 at 6:04 pm

  2. *edit* Queen Victoria, that is…

    KazigluBey
    09/17/07 at 6:04 pm

  3. Hmmm, I didn’t necessarily list mothers, just women. Although several of them were mothers, and there are of course hundreds of other examples.

    KazigluBey
    09/17/07 at 6:15 pm

  4. The statement was a bit incoherent to say the least, but that’s hardly the point. If you’re serious about censoring stupidity, there goes most of Fox’s broadcasting. Field should have the right to be heard, regardless of whether you agree with her message. To be fair though, she later said that she was speaking in the spirit of the character she won the award for (which I’m not familiar with). Supposedly she meant that if mothers of soldiers were in charge of our foreign policy, not just mothers in general, then there wouldn’t be any more war. There is some truth to that. War means something else entirely when it’s your kids fighting in it.

    Manila Ryce
    09/17/07 at 7:54 pm

  5. You know, this really isn’t a censorship issue. It wasn’t the government that cut her opinion from the airwaves, as there was nothing she said that violates any FCC regulation. (I don’t know if you can say Goddamn, but if you can’t usually stuff like that is bleeped.)
    This was corperate censorship, plain and simple. A private company that is afraid that her offending the less-than-30% of their viewership would impact their ratings. Perhaps it would. In either case, I use this as an example to all hardcore Libertarians how having private corperations in charge of absolutely everything would really suck balls.

    PapaFigue
    09/18/07 at 6:48 pm

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