Fearing fines from the Federal Communications commission, several ABC stations will not be showing the movie Saving Private Ryan this evening in commemoration of Veterans' Day. ABC has shown the movie before in its entirety, but since the Janet Jackson breast bearing incident and Bono's using the f-word on TV, they fear that they could possibly be fined because of the excessive violence and the use of profanity. The network's contract with Steven Spielberg says that they can't edit the film, so they can not delete the profanities. Now the FCC fined CBS over an incident over which it had little, if any, control. Some of the ABC affiliates who would like to air Saving Private Ryan have attempted to get a waiver from the FCC, but the FCC denied them the waiver. Personally I think that airing the film would be a nice tribute to veterans, but I guess the moral majority has spoken.
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