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`Saving Private Ryan' too risky for some ABC affiliates.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Byline: Mark Washburn
CHARLOTTE, N.C. _ Fearing government fines for airing coarse language and graphic material, Charlotte's WSOC-TV decided Wednesday not to show the ABC network movie scheduled for Veterans Day.
What's out: "Saving Private Ryan," a World War II story of heroism and valor.
What's in: an edited-for-TV version of the R-rated Eddie Murphy comedy "Coming to America."
Other ABC affiliates _ including those in Atlanta; Detroit; Dallas; Des Moines, Iowa; and Orlando, Fla. _ also are pulling the Steven Spielberg wartime movie starring Tom Hanks.
The cancellations are emblematic of a quandary broadcasters say they face in the indecency crackdown by the Federal Communications Commission after Janet Jackson's …
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