I did love their quandry, just as I love the quandry that CBS has apparently put itself in. And we are certainly in agreement that forums for revolutionary/radically different material on the public airwaves and in privately owned media are shrinking, while the allowable content for vulgarity and yellow journalism is expanding at a rate faster than the expansion of the known universe...

But the airwaves, the public *can* do something about if a large enough consensus can be reached to broaden the concept of networks legal obligation to provide "public service" programming to include more open access to a diversity of views and perspectives. At the same time, there would also have to be a considerable sea change of opinion on "community standards", since the community that gets to decide what standards will hold across the board are such narrow minded sons of bitches.

I agree, there is only a legal obligation in this instance, and I don't feel it is A Big Thing in the larger scheme of First Amendment and free speech battles.

I also think Ani can handle the Big Boys, as she has demonstrated so well in the past.

But I do judge what CBS did as political censorship, pure and simple. And of course, I'm not the least bit surprised by it--more bemused, and curious to see how it all sorts itself out in the long run.