Movie & TV News @ IMDb.com – Studio Briefing: “The recipient of a First Amendment Leadership Award from the Radio-Television News Directors Association has acknowledged that he was compelled to order several stations not to air Saving Private Ryan last November. As reported by New York’s Village Voice, Liberty Corporation President Jim Killer told the RTNDA: ‘It’s somewhat ironic that about the time I found out about this award, I was in the process of making a decision which ignored the First Amendment.’ Killer said that he had ordered the ABC stations, all of them located in the South and Midwest, not to air the film ‘because the FCC refused to issue a definitive statement that the rebroadcast was content-acceptable.’ The agency had earlier overruled a conclusion by its staff that the use of a variation of the F-word by Bono during a live broadcast of the Golden Globes Awards was not indecent, saying the earlier decision ‘is no longer good law. By our action today, broadcasters are on clear notice that, in the future, they will be subject to potential enforcement action for any broadcast of the ‘F-word or a variation thereof in situations such as that here.’ (There are 21 uses of the expletive in Ryan; last month, the FCC ruled that the film was not indecent.) Killer, a former broadcast journalist whose stations have been recognized for their news coverage, also said that as a result of the FCC decision, ‘We changed the way we do live shots’ in newscasts. Commenting on his remarks, the Village Voice asked, ‘Anyone feel a chill?'”