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Thursday, June 15, 2006

Never a Happy Ending with CBS's Without a Trace

Via Kerry Howley at Hit & Run:
After the FCC fined CBS $3.3 million for a smut-filled episode of teen drama Without a Trace, CBS filed a FOIA request asking for information on complaints the show generated. The station found 4,211 people had complained about the episode's depiction of a teen orgy. But according to CBS, it's not clear that any of those 4,221 had ever, you know, seen the show:
Fake reason I'm linking to Kerry Howley's post: It points to pretty damning evidence that CBS is getting royally screwed - and not in a good way. And it's great to see a network standing up to government censorship.

Fake real reason I'm linking to her post: It contains a link to a one-minute video clip of the teen sex orgy.

Real real reason I'm linking to her post: The video clip is one minute of more than a dozen people kissing and caressing each other in their underwear and she calls it "[p]otentially salacious, but ultimately disappointing." In other words, it doesn't go far enough. Good, girl. You just might make it into stripper heaven.