ATTN JMS: Censorship on Sci-Fi?

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From: "Mac Breck" <macbreck at access995.com>
Date: 22 Sep 2000 07:11:37 -0700
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From: "Steve Fenwick" <abuse at w0x0f.com>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2000 11:22 AM
Subject: ATTN JMS: Censorship on Sci-Fi?


> The Sci-Fi Network has, IMO, a bad history as applying censorship where
> other broadcasters found no need. For example, during a recent airing of
> "Space: Above and Beyond", the word "ass" was deleted by muting the
> entire audio track. Similar treatment has been given to other,
> relatively mild words during other programs; indeed, Sci-Fi seems to cut
> sections of scenes to avoid a "naughty" word.
>
> Is there any indication what treatment B5 will receive in the cutting
> room at Sci-Fi at the hands of their S&P people? It would be a shame to
> ruin some fine, dramatic scene by muting the audio track at an
> inopportune moment, or worse, cutting parts of scenes entirely.

I just saw "The Thing" (1982 ver.) on the Sci-Fi Channel, and it doesn't
look good.  It was shown at 9PM and they muted swear words everywhere.  I
turned it off, and was tempted to watch my DVD instead.

B5 is going to air at 7PM.  I HOPE they don't mute the dialogue, and instead
just put up warning messages at the beginning and at the breaks.

I wish there was a email address for the Sci-Fi Channel so we could tell
them this.  Snail mail would never get there in time (Yeah, I know, like
they'd even listen.).

Mac





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From: jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5)
Date: 22 Sep 2000 14:52:04 -0700
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>B5 is going to air at 7PM.  I HOPE they don't mute the dialogue, and instead
>just put up warning messages at the beginning and at the breaks.

And just FYI, that's 7 Eastern, it's 4:00 Pacific time.

 jms

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