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  2. From: Richard.Mathews@West.Sun.COM (Richard M. Mathews)
  3. Newsgroups: rec.nude
  4. Subject: Re: Nudist TV segment
  5. Date: 21 Dec 1992 11:44:47 -0800
  6. Organization: Sunsoft Inc., Los Angeles, CA.
  7. Lines: 14
  8. Sender: richard@smaug.West.Sun.COM (Richard Mathews)
  9. Message-ID: <1h56rfINNag5@pongo.West.Sun.COM>
  10. References: <li83501@pro-harold.cts.com> <BzKwJF.6zr@kathunk.phaedrav.on.ca>
  11. NNTP-Posting-Host: pongo
  12.  
  13. nigel@kathunk.phaedrav.on.ca (Nigel M Burnett) writes:
  14.  
  15. >Is this a requirment of US television?  Do they do this for National
  16. >Geographix stuff too?  Is the state really that repressive or is
  17. >this self-censorship on part of the station/network/studio to avoid
  18. >litigation?
  19.  
  20. It is self-censorship and censorship imposed by commercial sponsors.  I
  21. have seen bare female breasts on commercial TV (e.g., a local station once
  22. showed "All that Jazz" uncut).  PBS, not suffering from the sponsorship
  23. problem (as much), regularly shows full or partial nudity.
  24.  
  25.     Richard M. Mathews             Freedom for Lithuania
  26. Richard.Mathews@West.Sun.COM                Laisve!
  27.