With Diaper Stunt, 'Family Guy' Just Trying to Get Fined by FCC | PopEater.com
http://www.popeater.com/2010/05/05/family-guy-diaper-fcc-offensive/
. . . ."It seems as though 'Family Guy' creator, Seth MacFarlane, carefully reviewed the legal definition of broadcast indecency and set out to violate it as literally as he could. . . ."
"Just asking for it" doesn't even begin to cover this. Somebody had to write the script, somebody else had to approve it, somebody else had to direct it, somebody else had to cover the costs, and somebody else had to okay running this on TV. That at least five people all had simultaneous complete nervous breakdowns, the most innocent possible interpretation of this egregious breach of public trust and public decency, stretches credulity to the breaking point and beyond. Either all those people and perhaps more are part of some terrible conspiracy to drive the rest of us shrieking mad with this ghastly prank aimed squarely at our most dearly held ideals, or Murphy is Lord of this Universe, and was having a field day with this one. Either that, or these really are the End Times, something I refuse to accept because it's such a transgression of good taste and a belief in a truly just God -- I'd much rather believe that the stars are finally right, and that Great Cthulhu is starting to emerge from R'lyeh . . .
After the My Lai massacre of March 15, 1968, people struggled to understand how such a thing about have happened, how human beings raised in decent communities in a civilized nation such as America could have become the sort of monsters it would have taken to plan and carry out those horrors, and how they could have come to comprise an entire unit of the US Army dedicated to such evil. Apparently the leader of that unit, 2nd Lt. William Calley, had, over a period of many months, carefully cherry-picked the men he wanted in his unit and finding ways to transfer men out of his unit that he felt would not perform in-country the way he wanted them to, until he finally had a unit full of men he felt he could trust to carry out his orders to perfection. And then he led those men in action against hundreds of innocent men, women, and children, raping and slaughtering, looting and destroying, until that village and its people had been totally destroyed. (For more on that, see, e.g., discussion of that issue in M. Scott Peck's People of the Lie: The Hope for Healing Human Evil.) At the time the incident first came under public scrutiny, no one could understand how that many soldiers in the US Army, which most certainly did not and does not train its soldiers to carry out atrocities -- quite the opposite, in fact -- could have acted in concert to carry out an act so evil and so unwarranted, not to mention one not only unsanctioned by Calley's superiors, but directly contrary to US military law. But eventually it was learned how Calley had so carefully put together his unit, making sure that that unit included only those who were like-minded and whom he could trust to share his view of things and to carry out his orders to the letter before he led his men on that raid against the people of My Lai. How each of those men came to be the sort of heartless, conscienceless bastards who would willingly participate in perpetrating such a horror could never be easily answered; but given that each of them had such a psychology and such inclinations, attributes which Calley shared and, apparently reveled in, it was no mystery how they had all come together in that one unit: Calley had learned to carefully work the system to transfer men out of his unit that wouldn't go alone with what he had in mind, and to recruit men for his unit who would go along with it, taking his time and doing nothing to arouse suspicion among his superiors until he had just the men he was looking for under his command, and no one in his outfit who was likely to buck his orders or betray his plans. After that, it was almost guaranteed that that unit would perpetrate atrocities as bad as My Lai or worse. The point being that it looks as if the people responsible for creating Family Guy and deciding its content and its assigned time-slot as well as the director and producers of the series, those at Fox in charge of deciding what airs and what doesn't, and numerous other people are all part of a "unit" analogous to the one Lt. Calley put together, save that in this case the intent behind the episode involving Brian eating Stewie's feces was to slaughter public sensibilities and ideals and the innocence of our children rather than a physical program of rape-murder-loot-burn of the kind Calley and his men carried out at My Lai.
. . . ."It seems as though 'Family Guy' creator, Seth MacFarlane, carefully reviewed the legal definition of broadcast indecency and set out to violate it as literally as he could. . . ."
"Just asking for it" doesn't even begin to cover this. Somebody had to write the script, somebody else had to approve it, somebody else had to direct it, somebody else had to cover the costs, and somebody else had to okay running this on TV. That at least five people all had simultaneous complete nervous breakdowns, the most innocent possible interpretation of this egregious breach of public trust and public decency, stretches credulity to the breaking point and beyond. Either all those people and perhaps more are part of some terrible conspiracy to drive the rest of us shrieking mad with this ghastly prank aimed squarely at our most dearly held ideals, or Murphy is Lord of this Universe, and was having a field day with this one. Either that, or these really are the End Times, something I refuse to accept because it's such a transgression of good taste and a belief in a truly just God -- I'd much rather believe that the stars are finally right, and that Great Cthulhu is starting to emerge from R'lyeh . . .
After the My Lai massacre of March 15, 1968, people struggled to understand how such a thing about have happened, how human beings raised in decent communities in a civilized nation such as America could have become the sort of monsters it would have taken to plan and carry out those horrors, and how they could have come to comprise an entire unit of the US Army dedicated to such evil. Apparently the leader of that unit, 2nd Lt. William Calley, had, over a period of many months, carefully cherry-picked the men he wanted in his unit and finding ways to transfer men out of his unit that he felt would not perform in-country the way he wanted them to, until he finally had a unit full of men he felt he could trust to carry out his orders to perfection. And then he led those men in action against hundreds of innocent men, women, and children, raping and slaughtering, looting and destroying, until that village and its people had been totally destroyed. (For more on that, see, e.g., discussion of that issue in M. Scott Peck's People of the Lie: The Hope for Healing Human Evil.) At the time the incident first came under public scrutiny, no one could understand how that many soldiers in the US Army, which most certainly did not and does not train its soldiers to carry out atrocities -- quite the opposite, in fact -- could have acted in concert to carry out an act so evil and so unwarranted, not to mention one not only unsanctioned by Calley's superiors, but directly contrary to US military law. But eventually it was learned how Calley had so carefully put together his unit, making sure that that unit included only those who were like-minded and whom he could trust to share his view of things and to carry out his orders to the letter before he led his men on that raid against the people of My Lai. How each of those men came to be the sort of heartless, conscienceless bastards who would willingly participate in perpetrating such a horror could never be easily answered; but given that each of them had such a psychology and such inclinations, attributes which Calley shared and, apparently reveled in, it was no mystery how they had all come together in that one unit: Calley had learned to carefully work the system to transfer men out of his unit that wouldn't go alone with what he had in mind, and to recruit men for his unit who would go along with it, taking his time and doing nothing to arouse suspicion among his superiors until he had just the men he was looking for under his command, and no one in his outfit who was likely to buck his orders or betray his plans. After that, it was almost guaranteed that that unit would perpetrate atrocities as bad as My Lai or worse. The point being that it looks as if the people responsible for creating Family Guy and deciding its content and its assigned time-slot as well as the director and producers of the series, those at Fox in charge of deciding what airs and what doesn't, and numerous other people are all part of a "unit" analogous to the one Lt. Calley put together, save that in this case the intent behind the episode involving Brian eating Stewie's feces was to slaughter public sensibilities and ideals and the innocence of our children rather than a physical program of rape-murder-loot-burn of the kind Calley and his men carried out at My Lai.