Actually, that’s bullshit. Of course they can’t.
So when you read this article, which says that “Turner Broadcasting is scouring more than 1,500 classic Hanna-Barbera cartoons, including old favorites ‘Tom and Jerry,’ ‘The Flintstones’ and ‘Scooby-Doo,’ to edit out scenes that glamorize smoking” because “one viewer…took offense to two episodes of Tom and Jerry shown on the Boomerang channel, a corporate sibling of Time Warner Inc.-owned Turner Broadcasting,” well, it’s a lie. Clearly, somebody higher up the food chain feared that someone might file a lawsuit in twenty or thirty years, saying that they got lung cancer because Quick Draw McGraw lit up a stogie.
“Smoke ’em if you got ’em, Wilma!”
What a stupid, stupid world we live in, full of stupid, stupid people.
