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madokie

(51,076 posts)
Mon Sep 11, 2017, 04:50 PM Sep 2017

CBS Criticized for Airing Graphic Horror Program Without Viewer Advisory

Satire from The Borowitz Report


By Andy Borowitz

11:01 A.M.



NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report)—CBS ignited a firestorm of controversy on Sunday night after it broadcast a shockingly graphic horror program without any viewer advisory.

Millions of viewers who unwittingly tuned in to the highly upsetting program recoiled in revulsion and took to social media to rip CBS.

“It’s appalling to think that you would even consider broadcasting such a thing at seven o’clock, when children could be watching,” one viewer wrote. “Shame on CBS.”

Another irate viewer complained that he was “in total disbelief” that CBS would air such disturbing content with no warning preceding it. “I may never get those nightmarish images out of my head,” he wrote.

Responding to the avalanche of criticism, the chief executive of CBS, Leslie Moonves, said that he doubted that a viewer advisory before the program would have made a difference. “I knew what was coming, and I was still terrified by what I saw,” he said.

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/cbs-criticized-for-airing-graphic-horror-program-without-viewer-advisory?mbid=nl_091117%20Borowitz%20Newsletter%20

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CBS Criticized for Airing Graphic Horror Program Without Viewer Advisory (Original Post) madokie Sep 2017 OP
I cant' believe MontanaMama Sep 2017 #1
Mark my word. Mr.Bill Sep 2017 #7
I fear you are right. MontanaMama Sep 2017 #8
Why would anyone watch HIM? Have they been living under a rock BigmanPigman Sep 2017 #2
. Guy Whitey Corngood Sep 2017 #3
He did look like some zombie or some shit uponit7771 Sep 2017 #4
Henry Miller was prescient Turbineguy Sep 2017 #5
I love good satire Gothmog Sep 2017 #6
Ha malaise Sep 2017 #9

Mr.Bill

(24,280 posts)
7. Mark my word.
Mon Sep 11, 2017, 06:47 PM
Sep 2017

They are grooming the next presidential nominee ratings bonanza. By 2020, Trump will be impeached, left office due to health issues, or just plain old news. It's not going to get better, it's going to get unbelievably worse. Ted Nugent also comes to mind. A well qualified, sensible Democratic candidate will get one fourth of the air time as whatever loon the Republicans run, just like Hillary Clinton did.

BigmanPigman

(51,584 posts)
2. Why would anyone watch HIM? Have they been living under a rock
Mon Sep 11, 2017, 05:08 PM
Sep 2017

for 10 months? Did they expect him to be interviewed on the It's a Small World ride at Disneyland?

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