PBS Offering Stations Profanity-Free Burns

In a sign of how fearful TV execs have become in the face of an FCC crackdown on foul language, PBS has announced that it will distribute two versions of Ken Burns’s upcoming documentary on World War II. Stations will have the option of airing either the original version of the film, or an edited version in which four words of profanity (in a 14-1/2 hour documentary) have been “bleeped.”