{"id":1455,"date":"2004-11-13T13:00:03","date_gmt":"2004-11-13T20:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/the-most-effective-censorship-is-self-imposed\/"},"modified":"2004-11-13T13:00:03","modified_gmt":"2004-11-13T20:00:03","slug":"the-most-effective-censorship-is-self-imposed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/the-most-effective-censorship-is-self-imposed\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Effective Censorship is Self-imposed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"BBC NEWS | Entertainment | TV and Radio | War film axed by 66 US stations\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/entertainment\/tv_and_radio\/4009821.stm\">BBC NEWS | Entertainment | TV and Radio | War film axed by 66 US stations<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nearly one-third of US TV stations affiliated to the ABC network dropped Oscar-winning film Saving Private Ryan for fear of facing indecency fines.<\/p>\n<p>Sixty-six of ABC&#8217;s 225 affiliated stations decided not to air the film, which opens with a gritty depiction of D-Day and includes profanity.<\/p>\n<p>The decision follows a recent crackdown by watchdogs.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Stations fearing punishment &#8212; welcome to America. mjh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC NEWS | Entertainment | TV and Radio | War film axed by 66 US stations Nearly one-third of US TV stations affiliated to the ABC network dropped Oscar-winning film Saving Private Ryan for fear of facing indecency fines. Sixty-six of ABC&#8217;s 225 affiliated stations decided not to air the film, which opens with a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/the-most-effective-censorship-is-self-imposed\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Most Effective Censorship is Self-imposed<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}