[opendtv] Re: Garrison Keillor: Talk about obscenity
- From: "John Shutt" <shuttj@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 14:23:25 -0400
Mark,
There is a huge difference between broadcasting a live news event where
nobody can control what happens, and a live television entertainment program
where the talent is under contract to perform, and I presume paid. Things
like (I'm nasty so she insists I call her) Miss Jackson's "Wardrobe
Malfunction" was deliberate and thanks to her language will be included in
any future live talent contract that such "malfunctions" will be disclosed
and approved in advance.
Just ask Andrew "Dice" Clay what happens when you break such contract
language. (You get a lifetime ban from MTV that lasts about a year, and in
the process get a temporary bump in your career.)
Have your entertainment program identify itself as TV-MA and let the V-Chip
take care of things. That's what it is for, after all. The big brouhaha
over Miss Jackson wasn't the malfunction per se, but that it happened during
the Super Bowl, presumably a family event. SNL is also (rarely these days)
live and they don't have the problem.
John.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Schubin" <tvmark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> In any case, the show, as I say, is to be entertainment. It will have
> major performers. It is a live show. They producers are anxiously
> trying to figure out what to do to prevent the U.S. broadcasters from
> being fined should one of those performers do something inappropriate
> (and the definition of "inappropriate" changes regularly at the FCC,
> even between staff and commissioners and from day to day). With a short
> delay, we can bleep a bad word (if we know what those words are). But
> what do we do if a whole act seems to go beyond the pale? And what if
> it's political rather than scatological/sexual? How do we fill a
> 15-minute hole in a live broadcast? Should the producers search out
> bland talent?
>
> No one is trying to shirk responsibility, but no one has a rulebook,
> either.
>
> TTFN,
> Mark
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