The Federal Communications Commission are getting a chance to start punishing broadcasters for the isolated and fleeting on-air use of expletives. It has been almost 30 years since the supreme court ruled the "seven dirty words."
"In an “industry guidance” document it issued in 2001, the commission said that in deciding whether to punish a broadcaster with fines or license revocations, it would consider “whether the material dwells on or repeats at length descriptions of sexual or excretory organs or activities.”
I think that they should fine broadcasters for using descriptions of sexual or explicit vulgarity. If they don't then it should be on late night television, when children are not watching.
Television has changed so much just in my generation alone. Shows are using words like shit and bitch a lot. I never remember hearing that on television a few years ago.
So, do you think that television has changed in the past decade when it comes to vulgarity?
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Like I said in response to Megan's blog, I feel that stations should not be penalized for things said by people if they were not part of the script. I know many times I have slipped up and said a vulgar word when I SHOULD NOT have, and wether these people like Bono, Cher, and Nicole Richie did it on purpose on they just "slipped" I don't think the broadcasters should have to take the blame for it.
Television has most definitely changed over the past decade. I remeber when I was younger and heard the word "crap" on Blossom....I instantly felt like I was doing something wrong by watching the show because that was a word I knew was "not nice." Now when watching TV and hearing things much worse than that, I cringe at what could possibly be shown/heard on TV in the next couple of years.
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