“Television networks quickly yanked material from the air to avoid appearing insensitive after Saturday’s disintegration of the space shuttle Columbia. An Albany Fox affiliate received complaints from viewers on Saturday when it aired a rerun of The Simpsons. The offending scene (pictured) included Bart building a rocket and firing it, and it falls to the ground, burning down a church. WXXA-TV pulled the episode mid-stream and replaced it with another rerun of The Simpsons” said Jeff Whitson, the station’s general manager. “It wasn’t as if we got hundreds (of complaint calls), but it was enough for us to pay attention to the episode,” Whitson said. “We had no way of knowing. The episode title (She Of Little Faith) didn’t give us any indication.” Read More >>>
