Abc's Movie Pre-Emption Means Fcc Should Clarify Its Rules ; If Profanity Is Ok for 'Saving Private Ryan' but Not in Other Programs, That's Confusing.
Portland Press Herald › November 15, 2004
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Some ABC affiliates that had aired Steven Spielberg's World War II epic "Saving Private Ryan" on Veterans Day in the past got a little skittish this year.
The reason? The movie's violence and profanity, which includes dozens of uses of the dreaded "F" word. The network was obliged by its contract with Spielberg to run the film unedited.See the full content of this document
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Abc's Movie Pre-Emption Means Fcc Should Clarify Its Rules ; If Profanity Is Ok for 'Saving Private Ryan' but Not in Other Programs, That's Confusing.
The network had aired the film in 2001 and 2002, but because of the...
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