{"id":9813,"date":"2010-08-02T13:27:46","date_gmt":"2010-08-02T20:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=9813"},"modified":"2010-08-02T13:27:46","modified_gmt":"2010-08-02T20:27:46","slug":"call-for-boycott-of-my-dad-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2010\/08\/call-for-boycott-of-my-dad-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Call For Boycott Of $#*! My Dad Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even though though the show is airing on broadcast television, not cable, a group of unhappy parents want a boycott for <em>$#*! My Dad Says<\/em>, on which <strong>William Shatner<\/strong> will be starring beginning next month.<\/p>\n<p>The Parents Television Council (PTC) has written to around three hundred companies who advertise on television in hopes of getting them to &#8220;send a message&#8221; to CBS.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/ShatnersmSMDS.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9814\" title=\"ShatnersmSMDS\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/ShatnersmSMDS.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"116\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>&#8220;As an advertiser, you have the power to act upon your corporate values and send a clear message to CBS and its affiliates that this type of profanity in any format has no place in primetime broadcast television,&#8221; wrote PTC President <strong>Tim Winter<\/strong>. &#8220;Associating your company with &#8216;Sh*t&#8217; cannot be an effective use of advertising dollars &#8230; I suspect your products are worth more than this raunchy attempt at humor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Winter asked those advertisers to let him know what they had decided by mid-August so that he could let his 1.3 million members know who supported the boycott and who did not.<\/p>\n<p>The PTC, based in Los Angeles, was formed in 1995 to keep tabs on children&#8217;s exposure to profanity, sex and violence on television.<\/p>\n<p>Although there is little to no profanity in the show itself, unlike the Twitter feed upon which it is based, the title\u00a0 <em>$#*! My Dad Says <\/em>alone was enough to anger the PTC. &#8220;With no apology, this network broadcast outlet is heavily promoting this program in all day parts in full view of children and unsuspecting parents,&#8221; said Winter. &#8220;Unless or until CBS chooses a different title for this program, we urge you to refrain from sponsoring such an abomination purported to be light-hearted fun.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though though the show is airing on broadcast television, not cable, a group of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2421],"tags":[3225,2414],"class_list":["post-9813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-tos","tag-my-dad-says","tag-shatner"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-tos\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek: TOS<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: TOS","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9815,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9813\/revisions\/9815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}