David Kronke was appointed Mayor of Television after a bloodless coup in 2000. Since then, he has improved infrastructure, championed greater educational opportunities and fought for reforms that have utterly erased corruption and incompetence from the television industry. Since Mr. Kronke has ascended to power, Television is a far better place. In a TV censor's world, Sin City is just City
The latest preciously outraged missive from our friends at the Parents Television Council will no doubt be met with cries of, “Huh. Is that still on?”
Yes, now we know who’s watching NBC’s “Las Vegas:” the PTC, so they can get hacked off by the show’s searing verisimilitude in acknowledging that there are indeed strippers in Sin City. And, apparently, strippers engage in various forms of disrobing. And, apparently, there are boorish men out there who will say the word “nipples” in front of a TV camera. Consider the PTC’s mind (but nothing else) duly blown.
“NBC brazenly thumbed its nose at the broadcast decency law with the November 30 episode of ‘Las Vegas’ yada yada yada yada yada,” read the statement. “This season all of the broadcast networks have upped the ante by introducing increasingly outrageous, explicit and indecent sexual yada yada yada yada yada.”
The PTC even managed to time their free publicity fairly well, issuing its latest screed today, hours before the show will air again. Although NBC probably wishes they would’ve stepped up sooner, before the show went into repeats.
“The executives and writers at NBC continually barrel past the line of common sense decency in creating storylines for ‘Las Vegas’ and yet this episode managed to reach a new low yada yada yada yada,” the statement said. Had they said “barrel past the line of common sense” and left it at that, they might’ve been on to something.
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My job here is done.
Posted by: Errant Nipple | December 15, 2007 3:03 PM