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Jan. 19th, 2005 01:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theweaselking
3.9 Billion people watch the Olympic games: Free on TV.
9 Americans complain: A waste of 10 minutes each.
1 Greek in charge of the opening ceremonies blasts the idiots at the FCC for "investigating": Priceless.
"Far from being indecent, the opening ceremonies were beautiful, enlightening, uplifting and enjoyable," Gianna Angelopoulos (the Games chief) wrote in a weekend commentary in the Los Angeles Times titled "Since When is Greece's Culture Obscene?"
The FCC, whose authority only extends to U.S. media, has said it is looking into complaints, nine of which were listed on its Web site, but it was not clear whether a formal investigation would be launched.
Angelopoulos, who said the handful of U.S. complaints were dwarfed by the 3.9 billion people who watched the ceremony, had a blunt message.
"As Americans surely are aware, there is great hostility in the world today to cultural domination in which a single value system created elsewhere diminishes and degrades local cultures," she said in her commentary.
"In this context, it is astonishingly unwise for an agency of the U.S. government to engage in an investigation that could label a presentation of the Greek origins of civilisation as unfit for television viewing."
OH NOES!
Date: 2005-01-19 07:07 pm (UTC)The guys portraying nude statues are obviously wearing pants; the genitalia isn't their own.
Re: OH NOES!
Date: 2005-01-19 07:23 pm (UTC)Re: OH NOES!
Date: 2005-01-19 07:28 pm (UTC)There are certain standards to maintain.
Re: OH NOES!
Date: 2005-01-19 07:46 pm (UTC)Re: OH NOES!
Date: 2005-01-19 08:14 pm (UTC)Re: OH NOES!
Date: 2005-01-20 03:41 am (UTC)Re: OH NOES!
Date: 2005-01-20 04:25 am (UTC)GO!
GO NOW!