Some things are so far out, it’s hard to believe they’re true. Like when a broadcaster in one of the most open, liberal countries in the world bans episodes of a TV show like The Simpsons as a public safety measure. But according to an incredulous Patrick Etschmayer, Swiss Radio and Television [SRF] has done precisely that.
For Switzerland’s News, Patrick Etschmayer writes in part:
After the reactor disaster in Fukushima, SRF’s first precautionary measure was to censure those Simpsons episodes containing nuclear power plant incidents. A brilliant step, indeed! Especially since the Swiss Radio and Television [SRF] had already declared the Simpsons inappropriate for children under 12-years-old.
This compulsive political correctness protects precisely those who need it least.
At the pinnacle of economics and politics, it is unfortunately most often those sitting in positions of influence that have the fewest scruples about doing the wrong thing if it pays – and who like it least when they and their deeds are revealed as ridiculous and laughable … even when it happens on the early evening episode of the Simpsons. No, radiation safety à la SRF is something we can do without.
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