[Apologetics] 'Bleep' bless you ma'am

[Stephen Korsman]

'Bleep' bless you ma'am: censor goes too far

By Catherine Elsworth in Los Angeles
Last Updated: 2:05am GMT 27/01/2007

An over-zealous censor bleeped out all references to God when editing an in-flight version of the Oscar-nominated film The Queen.

The operator had been told to remove all profanities when preparing a version for several commercial airlines.

When one of the characters addresses the Queen, played by Helen Mirren, passengers aboard certain Delta and Air New Zealand flights heard: "(Bleep) bless you, ma'am" rather than "God".

Jeff Klein, president of Jaguar Distribution, which supplied the airlines, said the removal of God in seven instances was a mistake by an employee who had taken his instructions too literally. The films have been replaced with unedited copies.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/01/27/wbeep27.xml

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