Censorship

            Censorship and public media seem to coincide together, and I find it quite annoying. In my opinion, people are just looking for something to freak out about, and are making a mountain out of a molehill.  I greatly applaud Trey Parker and Matt Stone (creators of South Park) for addressing many touchy social and or cultural topics that appear in the media. While South Park is constantly tapping into satire and humor of current political events, there are some forms of media that attempt, but ultimately fail. I guess you could say that the movie The Interview was one big form of censorship, due to the amount of controversy that appeared internationally. The 1915 case of Mutual Film Corporation vs. Industrial Commission of Ohio, “ Supreme Court ruled that movies were not part of the nation’s “press,” and therefore that state censorship of motion pictures did not violate the constitutionally guaranteed of freedom expression “ (Wertheimer 1993, 158). This ruling should have protected the movie, but the U.S was pressured, and ultimately breeched the ruling made in 1915. The North Korean government took the stupid comedy starring Seth Rogan and James Franco way too seriously, and terrorist threats were made, if the movie were released. Seth Rogan and James Franco were just trying to make a comedy about the ridiculousness of the North Korean government, and were berated far more harshly than a simple movie critic review. The controversy was not made to protect the American public, but rather the North Korean public.