FCC Ok’s Profanity on News Shows
November 10, 2006
I saw this over at Drudge a couple of days ago and got quite a chuckle about it.
Personally, I don’t see what the big deal about swearing is. Granted I don’t think profanity should be used during children’s shows or during prime time when kids could be watching, but at the same time, it just seems like this censorship of swearing or “decency” in this country is just over the top. It’s like these government officials are living in some kind of fantasy land and think that swearing on TV or even nudity on TV is going to bring about the apocalypse.
I just thought this was apropos since I read the article the day after I was watching the Daily Show Midterm Midtacular. Jon Stewart was going over the results of some of the races and one funny they made was about a Republican candidate defeating a Democrat. So they had an elephant graphic come out and lays some turds on the Dem’s head. It was quite funny and Stewart remarked something about the elephant shitting on the guys head. I guess it was the first feed since the shitting part wasn’t bleeped out. I watched the rerun again later that night and the shitting part was bleeped out. Hmmm. I thought that was kind of funny since I’ll sometimes flip to Comedy Central late at night when I am channel surfing and they will sometimes show stand up comedians. What? Comedians on Comedy Central? You don’t say? But what got my attention was that none of the swearing was bleeped out. So if they are willing to broadcast comedy shows late at night with no censorship why the hell would they bleep out a swear word during the Daily Show? I just didn’t get it.
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