| President Bush's solution to the latest Middle East hostilities recorded by cameras and microphones ("What they need to do is get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing this shit, and it's over.") caused consternation among television news media. Fearing FCC fines, ABC, CBS, and NBC chose electronic editing and references to an "expletive" over an accurate report of what the President said. The chilling effect of an over zealous FCC has caused an important news story to be sanitized for millions of people. |