We see it as a bold show that deals with issues of censorship and social and cultural topics. My line on South Park is that it properly offends everybody by design and by doing so it reminds us all that it's probably a good idea to be tolerant. It's also a very inventive and clever show.

As is the case every year, submissions for consideration by the Peabody Board provide insight into the astonishing array of electronic media productions. These are the works self-selected by creators and producers as their very best work from the previous calendar year. This year's Peabody Award recipients stand as hallmarks of excellence in news, documentary, comedy, drama, education and public service.

The judges felt that it was a bold program that probably offends just about everybody at some point and in doing so reminds us that we need to be tolerant. It's also consistent in its insistence on non-censorship.

manuscripts don't burn" - "(рукописи не горят)

If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.

Every burned book enlightens the world.