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Wednesday, November 11, 2026Nov 11

Cook: Where’s the beef? Where’s the sex and violence?

David Cook
David Cook David Cook

So local media leaders chose not to show a commercial about a gay Republican soldier who wants to get married because the ad may offend viewers?

That’s great news!

It means commercials aren’t sacrosanct, and can be yanked off the air.

It means we, the viewers, have some democratic power over which commercials air, and which don’t.

photo David Cook

It means media leaders aren’t stone-deaf, but instead are vulnerable to public input when we, the viewers, voice our thoughts on the programming put before us.