'South Park' and Terrorism: Hollywood Balances Creative Freedom with Death Threats
The Business
KCRW
4.5 • 699 Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2010
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Comedy Central Recently Censored An Episode Of "South Park" Over Threats Aimed At The Show's Creators On A Radical Muslim Website. We Ask The Questions: Was Comedy Central Right? How Should Hollywood Studios Weigh Creative Freedom Against Potential Security Risks? Plus One Hollywood Writer Stands Up To The Note "it's Not Edgy Enough!"
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW in Santa Monica and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business. |
| 0:06.8 | If you listen and learn, then you're going to be able to do anything you want, host town. |
| 0:12.4 | Everybody thinks your business, business, really, really, all white life. |
| 0:18.3 | He doesn't clean, clean. |
| 0:19.0 | What's with him? |
| 0:20.9 | Oh, I'm afraid he's gone Hollywood. |
| 0:23.2 | Hollywood. |
| 0:24.8 | This week on the business, Comedy Central recently censored an episode of South Park |
| 0:29.7 | after a radical Muslim group posted a threat aimed at the show's creators on its website. |
| 0:35.4 | What went into the cable channel's controversial decision? |
| 0:38.4 | Then we go from writing that's really edgy to writing that's not edgy enough. |
| 0:43.4 | But first, it's the Hollywood news banter. |
| 0:45.7 | Stay close. |
| 0:46.4 | It's the business from KCRW. |
| 0:48.6 | You can imagine Hollywood everything is really driven by making money. What's with him? Oh, I'm afraid he's gone imagine Hollywood. Everything is really driven by making money. |
| 0:54.9 | What's with him? |
| 0:56.3 | I'm afraid he's gone to Hollywood. |
| 0:59.8 | I'm joined in the studio by my fellow banterer, John Horn of the Los Angeles Times. |
| 1:05.0 | Hello, John. |
| 1:06.1 | Hello, Kim. |
| 1:07.2 | So Iron Man 2, big. |
| 1:09.8 | Huge, huge. |
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