Cindy Lee - FishbowlLA http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlla LA Media News, Unspooled Copyright 2013 Wed, 22 May 2013 00:16:22 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 ABC’s Unnecessary Censorship of Jimmy Kimmel We had to read a portion of this week’s TV Guide magazine interview with Jimmy Kimmel twice. Just to make sure it wasn’t some sort of gag.

In tangential response to the question, ‘As the ratings climb, has that given you more leverage?’, Kimmel replied:

“… Once in a while, we’ll have a fight over whether something is too obscene. One of the dumbest things ever happened about six months ago. There was a stick figure drawing of a naked woman, and there was a dot where each nipple would be, and they made us blur the dots out, which I figured was a little bit much for midnight.”

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]]> Richard Horgan http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlla/jimmy-kimmel-live-abc-unnecessary-censorship-tv-guide-september-6-interview_b71056#disqus_thread http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlla/jimmy-kimmel-live-abc-unnecessary-censorship-tv-guide-september-6-interview_b71056 http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlla/?p=71056 Thu, 06 Sep 2012 09:45:16 +0000