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Wednesday, November 08, 2006
FCC: Foul Language on TV OK -- Sometimes
Backstage: "The Federal Communications Commission changed its mind and dismissed charges against two television shows it had deemed indecent but upheld its findings against two others, according to a court filing submitted late Monday night."
Istn't the problem mostly when people aren't expecting it to be a problem? If you know it is going to happen, you can decide not to watch. If someone goes bananas at the oscars, or rips their top off at the superbowl isn't it more problematic?
While i agree that most problems stem from unexpected porfanity/stripping, i don't think it is necessarily a bad thing that the FCC is attempting to keep some control over the casualness with which the media is allowed to use profane words/actions. In general I don't agree with censorship of any kind, but I also feel that when certain words are used in such a blase manner they lose their weight--even the diversity and power of the vocabularly is somewhat diminshed. And I do agree that there is a difference between Bono saying that something is "f---ing brilliant" and someone using an explectative with more crude and base connotations-- though it does suck that the FCC has been inconsisent with its' defintion of profanity, picking and choosing when its' rules apply and ammending such rules to cater to specific situations.
3 comments:
i have a solution that will solve all these problems....
as a viewer if you dont want to watch something because you feel it is inappropriate then dont watch the show!
there are too many different opinions floating around for everyone to be able to agree on one.
Istn't the problem mostly when people aren't expecting it to be a problem? If you know it is going to happen, you can decide not to watch. If someone goes bananas at the oscars, or rips their top off at the superbowl isn't it more problematic?
While i agree that most problems stem from unexpected porfanity/stripping, i don't think it is necessarily a bad thing that the FCC is attempting to keep some control over the casualness with which the media is allowed to use profane words/actions. In general I don't agree with censorship of any kind, but I also feel that when certain words are used in such a blase manner they lose their weight--even the diversity and power of the vocabularly is somewhat diminshed. And I do agree that there is a difference between Bono saying that something is "f---ing brilliant" and someone using an explectative with more crude and base connotations-- though it does suck that the FCC has been inconsisent with its' defintion of profanity, picking and choosing when its' rules apply and ammending such rules to cater to specific situations.
-Samantha Englender
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