You know, folks, we all better start thinking about what kind of a country we want this old USA to be. The do-gooders who had a hissy fit when Janet Jackson's tit was on the television screen for maybe one-tenth of a second are probably in the house for such pieces of television crap as "Desperate Housewives" or "Wife Swap" or some of the other jiggly eye candy that passes off as reality television programming. A basketball game in suburban Detroit becomes a free for all that suggests there are a lot of people in this country who are in desperate need of anger management therapy. And after appearing in a sleazy and totally inappropriate opening to Monday Night Football, a black player who cavorted through the episode with a seemingly naked white lady is now suggesting this whole sorry episode was somehow an example of racism in America. All of these episodes--the Janet Jackson debacle, the basketball game between the Pacers and the Pistons, the Monday Night Football nonsense--all of this is trumped up on talk radio, in the major newspapers, the television cable networks. Yet the nightly coverage of the war in Iraq--showing people being blown to smithereens--passes by without protest. Nobody questions whether kids seeing this gruesome butchery on television or the internet is really damaging their sense of value and security. No smug and portly Jerry Falwell railing against the immorality that seems to pervade every facet of the war in Iraq. The moral compass of America is badly out of whack right now. But it can be corrected. Not by fining broadcasters. Not by getting rid of Dan Rather. Not by installing V-Chips on television sets. Go after the corruption in government, in sports, in the church, in business. And in major media. The naked lady on television is not the problem. The continuing absence of the naked truth on television is.
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