Post by Stephanie McMahon's sidekick! on Jan 24, 2003 14:47:19 GMT -5
January 23, 2003
The following is an article from the Toronto Star:
OTTAWA (CP) — A World Wrestling Entertainment program that showed a female manager being beat up doesn't breach a broadcasters' code against violence.
The segment on TSN Monday Night Raw showed a tag team attacking the woman after she interfered in their match and they were disqualified.
The tag team members pulled the woman by the hair and threw her into a table. Throughout the attack, the ringside announcers made comments such as "this isn't right for a man to hit a woman like that," and "like her or not, she did not deserve that."
A viewer complained to the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council, saying the scene sent an inappropriate message to young viewers.
A panel that investigated agreed there was violence in the show, but found the content is "most assuredly not condoned."
The scripted commentators make it clear they disapprove of the attack while it's in progress, the council said in a statement today.
"The actual beating up of Stacy (Keibler) may be tasteless and terrible role modelling," the panel said, but it doesn't violate the violence code of the Canadian Association of Broadcasters.
The program was broadcast March 18 of last year as a WWF show. The complainant was not a regular viewer of wrestling, but saw the show while channel-surfing.
The following is an article from the Toronto Star:
OTTAWA (CP) — A World Wrestling Entertainment program that showed a female manager being beat up doesn't breach a broadcasters' code against violence.
The segment on TSN Monday Night Raw showed a tag team attacking the woman after she interfered in their match and they were disqualified.
The tag team members pulled the woman by the hair and threw her into a table. Throughout the attack, the ringside announcers made comments such as "this isn't right for a man to hit a woman like that," and "like her or not, she did not deserve that."
A viewer complained to the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council, saying the scene sent an inappropriate message to young viewers.
A panel that investigated agreed there was violence in the show, but found the content is "most assuredly not condoned."
The scripted commentators make it clear they disapprove of the attack while it's in progress, the council said in a statement today.
"The actual beating up of Stacy (Keibler) may be tasteless and terrible role modelling," the panel said, but it doesn't violate the violence code of the Canadian Association of Broadcasters.
The program was broadcast March 18 of last year as a WWF show. The complainant was not a regular viewer of wrestling, but saw the show while channel-surfing.
