FOX NEWS ATTACKS NINTENDO DS! Total BullSh!t

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dabaus513 said:
Dont get me wrong im all for free press but what do they censor anymore? Is your idea of censorship giving movies like hostel and saw G ratings so more people can see them? Im sorry but if movies like that can be shown in theatures then id say we have a pretty tolerant censorship system as it is now. I disagree that politics are about controlling others and causing fear. maybe in a dictatorship yes but sorry america is far from that for right now, lets pray it never happens but with most politicians only caring about the bottom line and the moron liberals welcoming the neo hitler of our time (leader of Iran) to the university of columbia like hes some hero, then yes, i forsee a very scary future. And im sorry but the "right wing fascists" arent out to stop video games. I honestly dont think they care.

Tolerant in some ways, but not in others.  Blood and gore is tolerated quite a bit, as you point out.  Sex is less tolerated in entertainment (it gets a higher rating more easily).  Homosexuality is much more restricted, although a lot of this is self-censorship by networks and moviemakers terrified of Bible-thumpers' wrath (and rightfully so).  Anyway, this is all in entertainment not the press. 

I don't think that the government censors much of anything directly, but there has been a great deal of fearmongering by the current administration and various right-wing pundits about how criticizing Bush's policies, people, or ANYTHING is tantamount to giving aid and comfort to the enemy.  Journalism is also sometimes hampered by (for instance) a newspaper's corporate owner discouraging an expose on someone who gives other parts of that corporation a lot of business.  I see this as a major danger of media being owned by a very few, extremely large corporations that have a lot of hands in a lot of industry pies; or of one corporation owning a great deal of the media.  (Clear Channel Communications owns an alarming percentage of radio channels in the USA.) 

I wish we had another Teddy Roosevelt -- this country is in dire need of some strong environmentalism and trustbusting.