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Thursday, April 13, 2006
If you aren't watching South Park, you should be. In the last year or so it's moved beyond fart jokes to the most incisive social criticism on television. No I'm not kidding.

Last night was a good example. In response to Comedy Central's pulling of an episode attacking Scientology, the South Park writers essentially dared their corporate executives to permit an image of Muhammad appear on the screen. As predicted, the corporate management flinched and blocked the scene - displaying for all the world to see the cowardice of television producers.
Incidentally, last night's episode also equated Bush's political use of fear with terrorism, mocked the Muslim's world intolerance, criticized Americans' unwillingness to defend the first amendment and our desire to wish big problems would just go away, abused the media for its facile coverage of important issues, and ridiculed the "Family Guy" program as a very poor piece of comic writing (while doing a spot-on satire of the show).

And they did all this in only 22 minutes. How's that for good writing?
Posted by Arbitrista @ 8:48 PM
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