Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Fairness in Broadcasting

Earlier, there was much ado about the Fairness in Broadcasting Act. I don't see what was so bad about it. It might have actually resulted in some movies where:
  • intelligent people live in rural areas, and city dwellers are poor inbred layabouts
  • vampires were actually evil, not just misunderstood
  • Michael Moore points out the better side of capitalism
  • members of the clergy remain faithful and avoid doing evil
  • animals do not make wisecracks
  • the profits of Big Media were exposed by some plucky young oilfield workers
  • characters are not defined by their ethnicity
  • neighbors are not wacky
  • the woman does not fall for the "bad boy"
  • fruit carts and glass deliveries are safe from car chases
  • the noble American military saves the world from corrupt environmentalists
It would also require the formation of several new cable channels - one to show movies where the husband recovers from the abusive two-timing wife, one to show obedient children and sensible parents, and more than one to show high-budget computer-animated documentaries about Young-Earth Creationism (preferably voiced by Morgan Freeman).

1 comment:

Col. B. Bunny said...

There would also be thousands of movies about the Soviet and Chinese Holocausts and some would portray how Lillian Hellman, Dashiell Hammett, and Jane Fonda are tracked down by Marshal Dillon and sent to Alcatraz. Then there would be tons of movies showing how FDR's Administration was just teeming with communists and one by one they're spirited off by Hannibal Lector.

There could be a wonderful movie in which the entire student body of Princeton, Harvard, and Yale are drafted into the infantry and sent to clean up Iran and convert the Iranians to Christianity, with Ann Coulter playing the commanding general.