Sharp as a Marble - CBS to remove firearms from all prime time shows

CBS to remove firearms from all prime time shows

12/18/2012 – Citing concerns from viewers over the recent shooting tragedy, CBS has stated that it will remove all guns and references to guns from its prime-time line up, most notably its popular CSI franchise.

A spokesperson for CBS said “We feel that in light of the recent elementary school shooting that it would be irresponsible for the station to continue to make money off of shows that revolve around firearms. It would be the height of hypocrisy for networks to cancel shows like American Guns and 3Gun Nation that show responsible gun ownership and yet allow such fare as Criminal Minds, NCIS, and Hawaii Five-O to continue to glorify improper gun handling skills and violence.”

Several prominent Hollywood studios have also come forward to state that they were shelving several movies planned for Summer release. “What good does it do for us to use our voice to demand that the government restrict the rights of Americans to own guns when our very product glorifies the violence we seek to end?” said one producer who wished to remain anonymous.

Said no press release… ever.

Let me know when these networks, movie studios, and game producers pull the plug on all guns and I’ll start believing they give a shit.

Comments

harp1034 says:

on 12/18/2012 at 12:10 PM

They will say it but want do it. Oh they might delay it a few weeks or change the name. However there is way too much money involved to just cast them aside.

Robb Allen says:

on 12/18/2012 at 12:29 PM

Just so we're clear, that's a fake 'story' highlighting the hypocrisy of networks pulling 'gun related' shows off the air.

Borepatch says:

on 12/18/2012 at 12:58 PM

Funny, I thought that CBS' presser would include how they were instituting a policy not to spend more than 10 seconds on school shootings, in order to discourage copycats.

Chris says:

on 12/18/2012 at 2:20 PM

That's great! I had the same idea whenever some gun grabber like Mark Wahlberg complains about guns, but almost every one of his movies features them prominently.

Jim says:

on 12/18/2012 at 3:24 PM

Mark Wahlberg complains because he is a prohibited person and can't own any type of firearm

MikeJ says:

on 12/18/2012 at 3:42 PM

They would need to cut all the ad dollars from many video games too... saw this on TV last-night:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb5pXSN_BSI

Jack says:

on 12/18/2012 at 4:48 PM

Or imagine if NBC dropped all shows with gay actors after a grisly serial killer that that targeted young men boys were discovered.

And yet NBC kept producing shows with gay villains and the only gay good guys worked for the government.

wolfwalker says:

on 12/18/2012 at 10:28 PM

"...and yet allow such fare as Criminal Minds, NCIS, and Hawaii Five-O to continue to glorify improper gun handling skills and violence."

Actually, I don't know about Criminal Minds, but if you watch closely, the good guys in NCIS and Hawaii Five-O are always careful to observe basic gun safety rules, even when the guns in their hands are unusable props.

That being said, it's a nice bit o' satire and it did make me grin.

Ted says:

on 12/21/2012 at 6:32 AM

Wonder if they're going to cancel all the cooking shows, after the jerk in China cut up all those kids. Can't be glorifying knife use, don'cha know.

j c baber says:

on 12/22/2012 at 5:52 PM

that ok i have removed,cbs,abc,nbc, from my viewing cept for local weather and news,,nothing but crap on anyway

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