{"id":10162,"date":"2006-08-22T06:42:54","date_gmt":"2006-08-22T13:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/08\/22\/smoke-and-ire.html"},"modified":"2006-08-22T06:42:54","modified_gmt":"2006-08-22T13:42:54","slug":"smoke_and_ire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/08\/22\/smoke_and_ire.html","title":{"rendered":"Smoke and Ire"},"content":{"rendered":"

British activists have won a battle with Turner Broadcasting about some of its vintage cartoons and the evils of (gasp) smoking<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Tom and Jerry can flatten each other with anvils and batter themselves senseless with mallets, but censors have drawn a line when it comes to watching the cartoon cat and mouse enjoy a cigarette. <\/p>\n

Following a single complaint to the media watchdog Ofcom, scenes showing characters smoking in the classic cartoons are being cut. Similar scenes in other cartoons including The Flintstones and Scooby Doo are also destined for the cutting room floor. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I’m certainly not in favor of smoking. On the other hand, there’s a lot more potentially objectionable material in cartoons, both old and new, that I’d lop out first — if I were of a mood to bowdlerize cartoons.<\/p>\n

And, what the heck does this mean for a true classic like Jonny Quest, where dad is constantly puffing on his cigar, and Race swaps cigarette-lighting duty with his girlfriend Jade? (To be sure, the classic JQ is so politically incorrect, I suspect it will never make it back to the airwaves again.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

British activists have won a battle with Turner Broadcasting about some of its vintage cartoons and the evils of (gasp) smoking. 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