Looks like everyone is jumping on the bandwagon - looking for the most immediate excuse to limit the damage caused by unscripted media events... Well-known Canadian Hockey Coach and Commentator, Don Cherry, will have his wings clipped for recent live comments deemed inappropriate:
CBC puts Cherry on seven-second delay
Canadian Press
2/6/2004
OTTAWA (CP) - The CBC has placed controversial hockey commentator Don Cherry on a seven-second tape-delay leash and publicly reprimanded him over what management called an "inappropriate and reprehensible personal opinion" expressed on air...
http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/news_story.asp?ID=71218&hubName=nhl
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Guess we're all intended to become divided over issues that are meant to distract... I wonder what we're gonna miss while all this is going on?!
Blessings,
Mammonator
: All matters of symbolism aside, the Super Bowl Halftime
: Scandal continues to show all the markings of a contrived
: crisis.
: Also, another network (TNT) has announced it will use a
: 10-second audio delay for another awards show (SAG).
: An audio delay, of course, will be of no use if someone should
: decide to flash a breast. But it will work wonderfully to
: prevent any impromptu anti-war speeches.
: Also, the Variety article notes that it is an "odd
: coincidence" that Fox Entertainment's film and TV
