What do you think about it? Do you think the occasional F-bomb is ok? Does the context of its use matter? Does the number of times it is used matter?
Are there certain words that are more acceptable than others?
Programming after a certain time of day would not create problems. Chances are that if you are a parent who keeps young kids up until 11 every night, you probably cuss around them anyway.
Europeans have lax standards (relative to us) on what is shown on television and they don't seem too maladjusted. Maybe it's because they don't park their kids in front of it all day.
FYI: expletives. I saw you going after someone on another thread about this.
Originally posted by Coriolanus: FYI: expletives. I saw you going after someone on another thread about this.
If it was the "bawdy humor" comment, I got it from the blog, where they quote Justice Scalia as saying “Bawdy jokes are OK, if they’re really good!”...Someone finally recognized cross-thread commenting...
No, it was in your escalating war over the word "competent."
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Europe makes an interesting comarison...I wonder how long it would take this country to adjust if we suddenly adopted to the standards overseas. I'm quite certain we'd act like a bunch of juveniles the first time we saw a bare breast and heard the f-word during a soap opera or on Boston Legal...but do you think we'd eventually mature to that type of content?
There will always be a group of people in this country who are incredibly conservative and puritanical. I imagine that they would be the loudest opposition.
As has been said by many filmmakers, it is odd how we couldn't care less about children seeing violence, but if they see anything sexual or hear a bad word we freak out. I don't know why we have such a high tolerance for violence on television.
There is a difference between profanity and swearing.
In profanity we take sexual & bodily functions, transform into four letter words that have the rare property of being able to function as verb, noun, adjective and adverb. We can have conversations where every second or third word is a four letter word.
But swear words involve blasphemy against a religious concept. This can be very offensive to many. Yet it can be quite benign to others.
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I think a big part of the issue is just how responsible should broadcasters be held for unplanned and unanticipated "slips of the tongue" by a participant in the context of a live telecast -- the so-called "fleeting expletive" -- in a time slot in which children would be expected to be part of the audience.
That potential is a big reason for God giving us the technology for a seven-second delay and the kill button. And, for that matter, cable, where the FCC has no jurisdiction.
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In our endless pursuit of finding someone else to blame, the day will come when a network is sued (successfully) over a teen pregnancy or rape or some such.
If you can hold RJR responsible, it's not a huge leap, especially given study after study showing what is seen & heard on TV has a definite effect on behavior.
If you're a network and you run a live show not on a delay, you're asking for trouble.
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