There’s a new company called Clean Flicks. They bill themselves as the “leading provider” of edited Hollywood movies — and reportedly Hollywood is not totally pleased. Clean Flicks removes profanity, violence, graphic violence and sexual content.
That should leave about 2 minutes of a 2 hour Hollywood film…But we digress.
The issue came up on Joe Scarborough’s always lively MSNBC talk show, Scarborough Country. The transcript is here. Here’s how Scarborough frames the controversy:
SCARBOROUGH: You know, it says, if Hollywood won‘t clean up its act, well, they have a right to do it for them. But there are a lot of people in Hollywood who believe this is not only breaking the law; it‘s censorship, and it‘s some guy out in middle America butchering their films.
All of this promoted this response on a blog called Jesus’ General…
We do seem to be at a point in history where technology can filter out almost anything we want. What do YOU think?
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.