NO, IT'S NOT CENSORSHIP

So, the folks over at realrocknews.com seem to feel CBS is involved in some hypocrisy since they decided not to show a clip of Alice Cooper "faux-strangling" an audience member of the Late, Late Show the other night.

The guys go on to talk about CBS airing programs like CSI and Criminal Minds as their proof of hypocrisy. I disagree. There's no evidence that the FCC pressured CBS to cut the scene. They did it on their own. I call that editing. Perhaps the clip wasn't entertaining. Maybe the audience member was mad. Maybe they didn't get a good-enough angle. There could be a whole host of reasons they didn't show it outside of "censorship."

CBS doesn't have a reputation for censorship, so I say we should give them the benefit of the doubt.

Josie