Editing CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (section)

===Public reaction===
''CSI'' was often criticized for its level and explicitness of [[graphic violence]], images, and sexual content. The ''CSI'' series and its spin-off shows have been accused of pushing the boundary of what is considered acceptable viewing for primetime network television. The series had numerous episodes centered on [[sexual fetishism]] and other forms of sexual pleasure (notably the recurring character of Lady Heather, a [[dominatrix|professional dominatrix]]). ''CSI'' was ranked among the worst primetime shows by the [[Parents Television Council]] from its second through sixth seasons,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.parentstv.org/ptc/publications/reports/top10bestandworst/2002/main.asp |title=Top 10 Best and Worst Shows on Primetime Network TV 2001–2002 |publisher=Parents Television Council |access-date=June 3, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070609011639/http://www.parentstv.org/PTC/publications/reports/top10bestandworst/2002/main.asp |archive-date=June 9, 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.parentstv.org/ptc/publications/reports/top10bestandworst/2004/main.asp |title=Top 10 Best and Worst Shows on Primetime Network TV 2003–2004 |publisher=Parents Television Council |access-date=June 3, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120527194146/http://www.parentstv.org/ptc/publications/reports/top10bestandworst/2004/main.asp |archive-date=May 27, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.parentstv.org/ptc/publications/reports/top10bestandworst/2005/main.asp |title=Top 10 Best and Worst Shows on Primetime Network TV 2004–2005 |publisher=Parents Television Council |access-date=June 3, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070523142544/http://www.parentstv.org/ptc/publications/reports/top10bestandworst/2005/main.asp |archive-date=May 23, 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=What Are Your Children Watching? |publisher=[[Parents Television Council]] |date=October 29, 2007 |url=http://www.parentstv.org/PTC/publications/reports/top10bestandworst/2007/WAYCW2007.pdf |access-date=November 3, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071202100512/http://www.parentstv.org/PTC/publications/reports/top10bestandworst/2007/WAYCW2007.pdf |archive-date=December 2, 2007}}</ref> being ranked the worst show for family prime-time viewing after the 2002–2003<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.parentstv.org/ptc/publications/reports/top10bestandworst/2003/main.asp|title=Top 10 Best and Worst Shows on Primetime Network TV 2002–2003|publisher=Parents Television Council|access-date=June 3, 2007|archive-date=August 7, 2004|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040807180541/http://www.parentstv.org/PTC/publications/reports/top10bestandworst/2003/main.asp|url-status=dead}}</ref> and 2005–2006<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.parentstv.org/ptc/publications/reports/top10bestandworst/2006/main.asp |title=Top 10 Best and Worst Shows on Primetime Network TV 2005–2006 |publisher=Parents Television Council |access-date=June 3, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110613060721/http://www.parentstv.org/ptc/publications/reports/top10bestandworst/2006/main.asp |archive-date=June 13, 2011}}</ref> seasons. The PTC also targeted certain ''CSI'' episodes for its weekly "Worst TV Show of the Week" feature.<ref>{{cite web|last=Bowling |first=Aubree|title=Best and Worst TV Shows of the Week|work=ParentsTV.org |publisher=[[Parents Television Council]] |date=October 10, 2002 |url=http://www.parentstv.org/PTC/publications/bw/2002/101002.asp |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051016191616/http://www.parentstv.org/PTC/publications/bw/2002/101002.asp |archive-date=October 16, 2005 |access-date=June 28, 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Bowling|first=Aubree|title=Worst TV Show of the Week – CSI|work=ParentsTV.org|publisher=[[Parents Television Council]] |date=April 27, 2003 |url=http://www.parentstv.org/PTC/publications/bw/2003/0427worst.asp|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050408103625/http://www.parentstv.org/PTC/publications/bw/2003/0427worst.asp |archive-date=April 8, 2005 |access-date=June 28, 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Monaco|first=Carl|title=Worst TV Show of the Week – CSI on CBS|work=ParentsTV.org|publisher=[[Parents Television Council]] |date=October 30, 2003 |url=http://www.parentstv.org/PTC/publications/bw/2003/1030worst.asp |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060831190818/http://www.parentstv.org/PTC/publications/bw/2003/1030worst.asp |archive-date=August 31, 2006 |access-date=June 28, 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Bowling|first=Aubree|title=CSI – Worst Family TV Show of the Week|work=ParentsTV.org|publisher=[[Parents Television Council]] |date=November 1, 2004 |url=http://www.parentstv.org/PTC/publications/bw/2004/1101worst.asp|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050914202343/http://www.parentstv.org/PTC/publications/bw/2004/1101worst.asp|archive-date=September 14, 2005 |access-date=June 28, 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Bowling|first=Aubree|title=CSI – Worst Family TV Show of the Week|work=ParentsTV.org|publisher=[[Parents Television Council]] |date=November 21, 2004 |url=http://www.parentstv.org/PTC/publications/bw/2004/1121worst.asp |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070504012636/http://www.parentstv.org/PTC/publications/bw/2004/1121worst.asp |archive-date=May 4, 2007 |access-date=June 28, 2007}}</ref><ref name="ptc200502">{{cite web|last=Bowling|first=Aubree|title=CSI: Crime Scene Investigation – Worst Family TV Shows of the Week|work=ParentsTV.org|publisher=[[Parents Television Council]] |date=February 20, 2005 |url=http://www.parentstv.org/PTC/publications/bw/2005/0220worst.asp|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070813002639/http://www.parentstv.org/PTC/publications/bw/2005/0220worst.asp|archive-date=August 13, 2007 |access-date=June 28, 2007}}</ref> In addition, the fifth season episode "King Baby" that aired in February 2005, which the PTC named the most offensive TV show of the week,<ref name="ptc200502"/> also led the PTC to start a campaign to file complaints with the FCC with the episode;<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.parentstv.org/PTC/action/CSI/content.htm |title=CSI Content |access-date=July 18, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071211021127/http://www.parentstv.org/PTC/action/CSI/content.htm |archive-date=December 11, 2007}} Retrieved on November 28, 2007.</ref> to date, nearly 13,000 PTC members complained to the [[Federal Communications Commission]] about the episode.<ref>[http://www.parentstv.org/PTC/fcc/Complaints.asp Broadcast Indecency Campaign] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070503021051/http://www.parentstv.org/PTC/fcc/Complaints.asp |date=May 3, 2007}} Retrieved on November 28, 2007.</ref> The PTC also asked [[Clorox]] to pull their advertisements from ''CSI'' and ''CSI: Miami'' because of the graphically violent content on those programs.<ref>{{cite press release|title=PTC Tells Clorox to Clean Up its Advertising|publisher=[[Parents Television Council]] |date=November 15, 2006 |url=http://www.parentstv.org/PTC/publications/release/2006/1115.asp |access-date=August 27, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080505064653/http://www.parentstv.org/PTC/publications/release/2006/1115.asp|archive-date=May 5, 2008}}</ref>

A [[grassroots]] campaign started in August 2007, upon rumors of Jorja Fox leaving the show,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.tvguide.com/news/Is-CSI-On-8208.aspx |title=Is CSI On the Hunt for a New Jorja Fox? |first=Michael |last=Ausiello |date=July 24, 2007 |work=TV Guide |access-date=June 14, 2011 |archive-date=July 26, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170726093512/http://www.tvguide.com/news/is-csi-on-8208/ |url-status=dead}}</ref> organized by the online forum Your Tax Dollars at Work. Many of its 19,000 members donated to the cause, collecting over $8,000 for gifts and stunts targeted at CBS executives and ''CSI''<nowiki/>'s producers and writers. The stunts included a wedding cake delivery to [[Carol Mendelsohn]], 192 chocolate-covered insects with the message "''CSI'' Without Sara Bugs Us" to [[Naren Shankar]], and a plane flying several times over the [[Universal Pictures|Universal Studios]] of [[Los Angeles]] with a "Follow the evidence keep Jorja Fox on ''CSI''" banner.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dollarsforsense.net/updates.php |title=Campaign Updates |publisher=dollarsforsense.net |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090220141041/http://www.dollarsforsense.net/updates.php |archive-date=February 20, 2009 |access-date=November 6, 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dollarforsense.com/Flyover.html |title=Keep Jorja On Csi Campaign |website=dollarforsense.com |access-date=November 6, 2007 |archive-date=November 14, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071114233335/http://www.dollarforsense.com/Flyover.html |url-status=dead}}</ref> Other protests included mailing the show's producers a dollar, to save Fox's contract "one dollar at a time". By October&nbsp;16, 2007, according to the site's tally, more than 20,000 letters with money or flyers had been mailed to the Universal Studios and to CBS headquarters in New York from 49 different countries since the campaign started on September 29, 2007.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tvguide.com/news/exclusive-csi-boss-8253/ |title=Exclusive: CSI Boss Vows Jorja Fox is "Coming Back" |first=Michael |last=Ausiello |work=TV Guide |date=October 18, 2007 |access-date=April 7, 2023 |archive-date=April 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230407082954/https://www.tvguide.com/news/exclusive-csi-boss-8253/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tampabay.com/archive/2007/10/16/to-fans-losing-sara-is-a-crime/ |title=To Fans, Losing Sara Is A Crime |first=Eric |last=Deggans |work=[[Tampa Bay Times]] |date=October 16, 2007 |access-date=October 16, 2007 |archive-date=October 18, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071018015213/http://www.sptimes.com/2007/10/16/Tv/_CSI__fan_says_losing.shtml |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://ew.com/article/2007/10/08/csis-launch-sav/ |title='CSI' Fans Launch Save Jorja Fox Campaign |first=Lynette |last=Rice  |magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |date=October 8, 2007 |access-date=April 7, 2023 |archive-date=April 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230407090319/https://ew.com/article/2007/10/08/csis-launch-sav/ |url-status=live}}</ref> Fox and Mendelsohn chose to donate the money to [[Court Appointed Special Advocates|Court Appointed Special Advocate]], a national association that supports and promotes court-appointed advocates for abused or neglected children.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.csifiles.com/news/011107_02.shtml |title=Fans Donate To Charity |website=CSIFiles.com |date=November 1, 2007 |access-date=April 7, 2023 |archive-date=April 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230407090952/https://www.csifiles.com/news/011107_02.shtml |url-status=live}}</ref>

On September 27, 2007, after ''CSI'''s season eight premiered, a miniature model of character Gil Grissom's office (which he was seen building during season seven) was put up on [[eBay]]. The auction ended October 7, with the prop being sold for $15,600; CBS donated the proceeds to the National Court Appointed Special Advocate Association.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=280154305542&ssPageName=STRK:MESC:IT&ih=018 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20071011004258/http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=280154305542&ssPageName=STRK:MESC:IT&ih=018 |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 11, 2007 |title=CBS CSI Gil Grissom's rare office replica TV prop |publisher=ebay |access-date=October 22, 2007}}</ref>