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To: Neeka who wrote (44758)	5/16/2004 3:05:16 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793871

They don't put the most grisly stuff on TV. That's a given. If our guards had done worse things to the prisoners, we wouldn't have seen those pictures on TV, either. That's what we get for having committed R-rated abuse to the terrorist's X-rated abuse. I understand why you're exercised over the way that sensible policy results in unfairness in this particular case. I just think it's too much to suggest it's anti-America bias. Nor do I think that showing X-rated stuff on TV is a suitable remedy for the unbalance.

To: Neeka who wrote (44758)	5/16/2004 7:21:56 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793871

Television is "mass media" for mass audiences. If your tastes are, how shall we put it, more individualistic, it is my understanding that you can see anything you want to see, as long as you're willing to pay for it yourself. It appears to me that you're complaining because you don't want to pay the price or make the effort to see your "special" tastes, so you're arguing that everybody else should want to watch it, too. As a general rule it doesn't work like that, but you're complaining to the wrong person. I don't have a problem paying for what I want to see if it's unusual.