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Religions > Atheism |
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"Fredric L. Rice" |
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24 Jan 2005 03:07:32 AM |
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Christian extremists against Greece |
From Reuters, 1/17/05:
http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=655808
Athens chief fumes at US lewdness claims
By Karolos Grohmann
ATHENS (Reuters) -
A clutch of complaints by U.S. viewers that the Athens Olympics
opening ceremony featured lewd nudity has incensed the Games chief,
who warned American regulators to back off from policing ancient Greek
culture.
Gianna Angelopoulos warned the Federal Communications Commission
watchdog, sensitive after a deluge of outrage when singer Janet
Jackson's breast was exposed at a Super Bowl game, not to punish NBC
television that aired the Games.
Male nudity, a woman's breast and simulated sex were the subjects of
shrill complaints about the opening ceremony on August 13 which were
posted by the FCC on its Web site.
"Far from being indecent, the opening ceremonies were beautiful,
enlightening, uplifting and enjoyable," Angelopoulos wrote in a
weekend commentary in the Los Angeles Times titled "Since When is
Greece's Culture Obscene?"
"Greece does not wish to be drawn into an American culture war. Yet
that is exactly what is happening," she said.
Complaints focused on a parade of actors portraying naked statues.
Among them were the Satyr and the nude Kouros male statues, both
emblems of ancient Greece's golden age.
Created by modern Greek dancer Dimitris Papaioannou and broadcast in
the United States by NBC, the opening ceremony was credited with
giving the Games a vitally successful start.
HISTORY OF EROS
"We also showed a couple enjoying their love of the Greek sea and each
other. And we told the history of Eros, the god of love. Turning love,
yearning and desire into a deity is an important part of our
contribution to civilisation," Angelopoulos said.
The FCC, whose authority only extends to U.S. media, has said it is
looking into complaints, nine of which were listed on its Web site,
but it was not clear whether a formal investigation would be launched.
Angelopoulos, who said the handful of U.S. complaints were dwarfed by
the 3.9 billion people who watched the ceremony, had a blunt message.
"As Americans surely are aware, there is great hostility in the world
today to cultural domination in which a single value system created
elsewhere diminishes and degrades local cultures," she said in her
commentary.
"In this context, it is astonishingly unwise for an agency of the U.S.
government to engage in an investigation that could label a
presentation of the Greek origins of civilisation as unfit for
television viewing."
An FCC spokesman was not immediately available for comment on Monday,
which is a public holiday in America.
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| User: "Al Klein" |
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| Title: Re: Christian extremists against Greece |
24 Jan 2005 01:29:26 AM |
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On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 03:07:32 GMT, (Fredric L.
Rice) said in alt.atheism:
"In this context, it is astonishingly unwise for an agency of the U.S.
government to engage in an investigation that could label a
presentation of the Greek origins of civilisation as unfit for
television viewing."
I don't think that, in the eyes of the current administration,
anything not viewed as correct BY the administration is allowed to
anyone anywhere in the world. After all, aren't we charged, by our
Christian god, with bringing OUR form of freedom to everyone? Isn't
that what the whole second term thing is all about?
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themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts."
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