Those people who go on the Internet
Regarding Dick in a Box:
“Those people who go on the Internet will not be shocked by this,” [NBC executive] Ludwin recalled thinking.
So, wait a sec—you mean there are people who don’t go on the Internet? Who are these people? And aren’t they more shocked by the grizzly bear that came crashing into their cabin this morning and ate them for breakfast than they would be by the word, “dick,” which for them probably means “corn bread muffin,” anyway?
[Ludwin continues,] “Obviously there are some people who will be offended. Those people are probably unlikely to go searching for it on the Internet. It’s just funny.”
It is also probably unlikely that Ludwin is being straight with us when qualifies his reasoning, twice. He must realize that those who claim to be “offended” by such-and-such are exactly the ones who will seek it out to maximize their, um, offense.
A better explanation is that NBC is using the opportunity to demonstrate the futility and unfairness of FCC censoring television, now that video is readily available on the World Wide Web. Publicly outflanked by a network, talk show values jockeys will have no choice but to give up their silly FCC letter-writing campaigns. Unless…
Backtalk
No Nathan, totally not the same thing, because EVERYONE knows, that you have to actively search for something on the internet. If you don’t want to see it, don’t search for it. As opposed to TV, where clearly the gestapo marches into our homes every night, and holds us all at gun point while making us stay up late to watch sketch comedy shows. We have no choice in the matter of TV. What, like we’re supposed to just change the damn channel if we find something offensive? HARDLY.
That’s it, really. The era of one-size-fits-all culture is long gone, and the FCC’s role as bad word/boob censor needs to go with it.
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