Comments on: Censored out of the blue http://www.pulpmovies.com/gagwatch/2006/09/censored-out-of-the-blue/ Watching the watchers watching what we watch Sun, 07 Sep 2008 05:08:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Paul http://www.pulpmovies.com/gagwatch/2006/09/censored-out-of-the-blue/#comment-3284 Paul Sun, 17 Sep 2006 17:10:36 +0000 http://www.pulpmovies.com/gagwatch/2006/09/censored-out-of-the-blue/#comment-3284 It is an emotional appeal. But the fact that the chief censor is talking to - and, presumably, taking seriously - people like Rosemarie Clouston who thinks the film should never have been made does strike me as being a worrying step in the direction of giving victims groups a veto over what films can and cannot be made. Hopefully I'm wrong, but I do think that this is a story worth following. It is an emotional appeal. But the fact that the chief censor is talking to - and, presumably, taking seriously - people like Rosemarie Clouston who thinks the film should never have been made does strike me as being a worrying step in the direction of giving victims groups a veto over what films can and cannot be made.

Hopefully I’m wrong, but I do think that this is a story worth following.

]]> By: Klaus http://www.pulpmovies.com/gagwatch/2006/09/censored-out-of-the-blue/#comment-3277 Klaus Sun, 17 Sep 2006 13:49:55 +0000 http://www.pulpmovies.com/gagwatch/2006/09/censored-out-of-the-blue/#comment-3277 sounds more like an emotional appeal than a call for censorship to me. I don't suppose he has appealed to the authorities to ban it? sounds more like an emotional appeal than a call for censorship to me. I don’t suppose he has appealed to the authorities to ban it?

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