Blue Owl Brewing
Media's Disgusting Behavior
RECEIVED Mon., Nov. 22, 2004
Dear Chronicle,
This is in response to Rob "Captain Boycott" McCarty's letter in your last issue [Nov. 19]. WTEN, the ABC affiliate in Albany, N.Y., also refused to air Saving Private Ryan. And I, like you, was irate with that decision. One thing Rob didn't mention in his letter: ABC had told its affiliates that it would be responsible for any fines the FCC might levy. So the local affiliates' argument that they were afraid of being fined or penalized is duplicitous.
So we have the capitals of two of the greatest states in the United States blacking out this important and revered American film about the sacrifice of veterans, on Veteran's Day.
What are we to think? That we ask young men and women to give their lives for their country then don't even have the guts to present something which highlights the nature of their sacrifice. Pretty disgusting.
This is in response to Rob "Captain Boycott" McCarty's letter in your last issue [Nov. 19]. WTEN, the ABC affiliate in Albany, N.Y., also refused to air Saving Private Ryan. And I, like you, was irate with that decision. One thing Rob didn't mention in his letter: ABC had told its affiliates that it would be responsible for any fines the FCC might levy. So the local affiliates' argument that they were afraid of being fined or penalized is duplicitous.
So we have the capitals of two of the greatest states in the United States blacking out this important and revered American film about the sacrifice of veterans, on Veteran's Day.
What are we to think? That we ask young men and women to give their lives for their country then don't even have the guts to present something which highlights the nature of their sacrifice. Pretty disgusting.
Steve Swartz
Schenectady, N.Y.
Schenectady, N.Y.
