Censoring in the local news

Last week in the paper there was a story about a TV ad for a theatre performance that had to be pulled because viewers complained. The play was a comedy about zombies which was happening over the weekend in Monterey. Apparently part of the ad mentioned that one audience member would leave the play "with a dead body" and people found that offensive. The theatre explained that the dead body was actually just a chicken, not a human body obviously - but the ads were pulled anyway. I believe this is the same local station who was apologizing a few months ago for some "racy" Carl's Jr ads - and as it turns out, the ads in question were never even shown on that station but somehow, people thought that is where they saw them so the station was actually apologizing for ads that they never even showed! I guess my point is that I find it hard to believe that people take time out of their busy day to call a TV station over these types of incidents yet nobody seems to be complaining about the biased news content (as we saw in the "Outfoxed" film in class).