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ORIGINAL: Arturas

TVLand will not longer show the original Dukes of Hazzard show. The cable network yanked reruns of the show this week due to controversy over the Confederate flag on the roof of the car driven by its main characters.

I will miss Daisy Duke but I certainly agree with this move. Clearly that Dodge Charger is racist and bigoted and I'm sure most Blacks will be upset to see the General with that flag on top.

What I worry about are all those Confederate flag tattoos. I say the Government should pay for free tattoo abortion clinics for those who have this flag inked on their fair and not so fair dermis.

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ORIGINAL: Arturas

TVLand will not longer show the original Dukes of Hazzard show. The cable network yanked reruns of the show this week due to controversy over the Confederate flag on the roof of the car driven by its main characters.

I will miss Daisy Duke but I certainly agree with this move. Clearly that Dodge Charger is racist and bigoted and I'm sure most Blacks will be upset to see the General with that flag on top.

What I worry about are all those Confederate flag tattoos. I say the Government should pay for free tattoo abortion clinics for those who have this flag inked on their fair and not so fair dermis.

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ORIGINAL: mnottertail

Dukes of Hazzard was cancelled because it was massively stupid and boring. Not for any other reason.

The market has decided. That's the unintended consequence of you free market communists. Embrace it with your full fervor.

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ORIGINAL: CreativeDominant

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ORIGINAL: mnottertail

Dukes of Hazzard was cancelled because it was massively stupid and boring. Not for any other reason.

The market has decided. That's the unintended consequence of you free market communists. Embrace it with your full fervor.

That's the way to lie...the network of Hot in Cleveland chickenshitted.

http://time.com/3944107/tv-land-dukes-of-hazzard-confederate-flag/

The Parents Television Council weighed in TV Land's decision Wednesday. Although the organization said they did not oppose the reasoning behind TV Land's actions, the council blasted the network and its parent company, Viacom, for "blatant hypocrisy" they say the media company demonstrated.

"When media companies are criticized for marketing programs that glamorize drug and alcohol use, or for sexualizing minors in television programs and movies, or for selling violent entertainment to children – despite overwhelming evidence of harm – or for trivializing rape, child sex abuse and pedophilia, all in the name of 'entertainment,' they are quick to wrap themselves in the banner of Free Speech," wrote PTC president Tim Winter.

"Restraint and responsibility do not infringe on the First Amendment and do not encroach on Free Speech rights. If TV Land is willing to pull The Dukes of Hazzard, out of concern for its harmful impact on our society (and it is good that Viacom is publicly acknowledging its programming can have a harmful impact on our society), they cannot then hide behind the First Amendment to refute the compelling evidence of harm from the violent and sexualized media content they continue to produce and air with impunity."

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/tv-land-pulls-dukes-hazzard-806265

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ORIGINAL: mnottertail

I have no idea what you are on about. It ran early 79 to early 85. there was a movie. It was all pretty bad junk. It was dumped as junk. The fad was over with mullets.

the reruns were pulled because the management of the corporation (people) decided to pull it. The market decided.

The rest is masturbation. Embrace your free market communism.

Some dickweeds howl at the moon, doesn't make it of any value.

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I really can`t believe that grown ups are whining about this.....

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ORIGINAL: CreativeDominant

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ORIGINAL: mnottertail

I have no idea what you are on about. It ran early 79 to early 85. there was a movie. It was all pretty bad junk. It was dumped as junk. The fad was over with mullets.

the reruns were pulled because the management of the corporation (people) decided to pull it. The market decided.

The rest is masturbation. Embrace your free market communism.

Some dickweeds howl at the moon, doesn't make it of any value.

But you're still lying. This has nothing to do with free markets and profits.

They pulled it not because of bad ratings and subsequent loss of revenue but because of the controversy over the Confederate Flag, as noted by TIME Magazine (unless you think they're lying?) and The Hollywood Reporter.

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But you're still lying. This has nothing to do with free markets and profits.

They pulled it not because of bad ratings and subsequent loss of revenue but because of the controversy over the Confederate Flag, as noted by TIME Magazine (unless you think they're lying?) and The Hollywood Reporter.

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ORIGINAL: bounty44

nahhh we can be sure it was just a complete coincidence that the dukes of hazzard was pulled from the air at the exact same time all the hub bub over the confederate battle flag was going on. or that the mysterious "ratings" in question also coincided with the issue.

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ORIGINAL: PeonForHer

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But you're still lying. This has nothing to do with free markets and profits.

They pulled it not because of bad ratings and subsequent loss of revenue but because of the controversy over the Confederate Flag, as noted by TIME Magazine (unless you think they're lying?) and The Hollywood Reporter.

Companies can be extraordinarily sensitive to bad publicity and this issue of the confederate flag was giving them that. The free market is like that: it translates people's likes and dislikes into (potential) profits and losses. That's what it's meant to do. It seems to me to be pretty useless to rage against that unless you want to control the basic mechanisms of the free market itself.