Don't the red states get cable?

Tom Hanks may have saved Private Ryan from the Germans, but he seems to have been no match for Janet Jackson and the FCC. This evening tuning in to ABC for the movie I was amazed at how much it looked like "Far and Away." I could have sworn that that was Tom Cruise and not Matt Damon.

Do we really live in a country where you can't run Saving Private Ryan on over the air TV on Veteran's Day because of violent situations and a few bad words?

Don't the red states get cable? The news on CNN is more violent then a lot of movies, and its real. Movies are make believe, aren't they, or have I been confused for a real long time.

Is it possible that this is the beginning of the end of over the air TV? How long will it be before Steven Bochco and David E. Kelly come to the same conclusion as Howard Stern and take their efforts over to satellite or cable where they won't have to worry about moral censorship? No. I think its likely that there will always be something on over the air TV. It might very well be the beginning of the end of anything worth watching on over the air TV. Well, there should at least be sports. Or maybe not, are directors going to have to pixelate over the mouths of athletes now?

I guess I am jaded. I watched every episode of OZ. Its possible that my meter may be out of calibration, but it would seem that a movie like Private Ryan, offered as a memorial to the service and loss of so many could be interpreted in the context it was produced and that we can all deal with the coarseness of reality for the time it takes to appreciate it.