I got immediately which network they were talking about, from the moment one of them said "Fair and Balanced." It's too bad about the rewrite censorship, though.
well, making side references like that is a bit different from saying "Fox News is ..." the way the original script went.
it may be how people talk to each other (and thus, accurately reflects reality), BUT it sucks in network-to-network relations. Its a guarenteed lawsuit for slander (because companies sue even for opinions these days, no matter how hypothetically or "fictionally" expressed). To make matters worse, the fact that the production company is 20th Century Fox means that Fox's own lawyers would be caught in a major conflict of interest issue.
it really was too big a thing, cost and time wise, to handle and at the same time actually get a show on the air. these things do have time limits.
really, this was not censorship from the government, nor censorship by the network to protect channels of government support (in either direction). This was a wise move to avoid legal issues that could cost so much in time and money that it would destroy the series and seriously hurt the network.
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it may be how people talk to each other (and thus, accurately reflects reality), BUT it sucks in network-to-network relations. Its a guarenteed lawsuit for slander (because companies sue even for opinions these days, no matter how hypothetically or "fictionally" expressed). To make matters worse, the fact that the production company is 20th Century Fox means that Fox's own lawyers would be caught in a major conflict of interest issue.
it really was too big a thing, cost and time wise, to handle and at the same time actually get a show on the air. these things do have time limits.
really, this was not censorship from the government, nor censorship by the network to protect channels of government support (in either direction). This was a wise move to avoid legal issues that could cost so much in time and money that it would destroy the series and seriously hurt the network.