Gained in translation

Gained in translation

: Gotta love it: Now the FCC is mucking up international relations. The Greeks are pissed that the FCC would investigate the decency of the Olympics.

Greece does not wish to be drawn into an American culture war. Yet that is exactly what is happening. The Federal Communications Commission has launched an investigation into the broadcast of the opening ceremonies of the Athens 2004 Summer Olympic Games.

The first step was taken in December, when the commission demanded that NBC provide it with tapes of the broadcast. This was in response to nine complaints about indecency from U.S. citizens (globally, viewers exceeded 3.9 billion).

16 responses to “Gained in translation”

  1. borborygme Avatar
    borborygme

    It seems silly that a number as small as nine could cause a problem. But it seems to me that greece is not on trial, rather the american broadcaster of the ceremony is on trial.

  2. Hubris Avatar

    Technically, Greece was already in our culture war with that whole Alexander/bisexuality/Greeks-threatening-to-sue the-producers flap.
    Not to mention the war over the correct pronunciation of “gyro.”

  3. /pd Avatar

    ..and I think that the IOC Greek Memember and the Ministry ..told the Media that they should not interAncient Greek cultural dress code and traditions !!
    Oh yeah, an’t this just another classic example, on the American ways and culture ?? Why does not theUs-gov look first internally and clean up its closet before trying to interfer in other global issues ??

  4. Catherine Avatar
    Catherine

    I think every blogger should write the FCC and complain about the erectile dysfunction advertising on our nation’s networks. If the FCC wants to be the guardian of the nation’s values let’s start there. Who can deny that the ads are a form of sex education coming into our homes without our permission? What are the values those ads are promoting? You can’t simply switch to another channel because the ads are almost universal. People who complain about that one-time millisecond of a bared breast that their children saw, must also be getting questions like, “Daddy, What does C—is do and why are those people smiling all the time? Can I get some? Please?”

  5. Catherine Avatar
    Catherine

    I think every blogger should write the FCC and complain about the erectile dysfunction advertising on our nation’s networks. If the FCC wants to be the guardian of the nation’s values let’s start there. Who can deny that the ads are a form of sex education coming into our homes without our permission? What are the values those ads are promoting? You can’t simply switch to another channel because the ads are almost universal. People who complain about that one-time millisecond of a bared breast that their children saw, must also be getting questions like, “Daddy, What does Ci–is do and why are those people smiling all the time? Can I get some? Please?”

  6. Michael Zimmer Avatar

    This really doesn’t have anything to do with Greece, per se. Its about the content that NBC broadcast. It matters not whether that content was produced in Greece or in my basement.

  7. Jeff Jarvis Avatar

    Zimmer: If you can’t see the utter absurdity of this then you lost the absurdity gene.

  8. Michael Zimmer Avatar

    Jeff – I understand the absurdity; I just don’t see the point of making it some type of “culture war” between US & Greece.

  9. oodja Avatar

    Bravo to Ms. Angelopoulos-Daskalaki. For two weeks this summer the Greeks gave us an Olympiad that was classy and free of terror, and some American Taliban have nothing better to do than crap all over it because they may or may not have seen something that might have been a boob or a peepee. Riiiiiiiight.
    Can’t we ship these god-fearing prudes to a country they’d be happier in, like Saudi Arabia?
    Being married to a Greek, I can report that Greece isn’t exactly enamored with the United States these days (and they just voted the conservatives in themselves, so it’s not the typical knee-jerk leftist sentiment at work there this time). Stupid shit like this doesn’t exactly help the cause.

  10. at8ax Avatar

    Sidebar: Have we seen the nine complaints? Do we know that they are all sincere? It would certainly occur to me to write a mock complaint about those shocking ceremonies (and I’m not even a Howard Stern fan).

  11. /pd Avatar

    Michael Zimmer : Iam totally astonished to learn
    ::”I am a doctoral student at New York University pursuing a PhD in Media Ecology in the Department of Culture & Communication.”
    and you have the audocity to comment..
    ::”This really doesn’t have anything to do with Greece, per se. Its about the content that NBC broadcast” !!
    Geeeeee.. Was that an error between the keyboard and the chair during the comments process ? So why is the FCC dragging Greece into the picture ?
    Secondly, I must say.. I am not hearing Saudi Arabia or any other ultra othrodox culture’s have not had bad vibes with Greece.. only the Amercian’s media seems to be throwing this FUD around..

  12. Angus Jung Avatar
    Angus Jung

    “Being married to a Greek”
    What’s his name?

  13. -spyros Avatar

    It’s sad that the FCC is turning once again America into the laughing stock of the “civilized” world. I believe that Greece should not get involved in this; the absurdity of the whole story is such that it defies analysis.
    Watching realistic depictions of ancient art–vile; watching on a weekly basis cockroaches being devoured for a fist full of dollars–noble. It’s all about “values”, eh?

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