As we all know, the FCC has been on a mission to protect us from vulgar language and nudity (though extreme violence seems to still be A-OK). They recently upped the fines for breaking their rules and added more rules. I haven’t been paying attention, because I hardly ever watch or listen to anything broadcast over the open airways anymore, having some time ago decided it was a lost cause and Focus on the Family had won their battle to protect the world from nipples and curse words. Not to mention most open broadcast programming is completely vapid anyway. Today I ran across a story concerning a future PBS documentary about WWII, and their concerns over two curse words spoken off-camera and how that was going to effect the situation.
Well, get this:
Most notably, PBS’s deputy counsel, Paul Greco, wrote in a memo to stations, it is no longer enough simply to bleep out offensive words audibly when the camera shows a full view of the speaker’s mouth. From now on, the on-camera speaker’s mouth must also be obscured by a digital masking process, a solution that PBS producers have called cartoonish and clumsy.
Wait … so it’s not enough just to make sure the words can’t be heard, seeing their lips moving can lead to fines as well?! Cartoonish and clumsy, indeed. Also stupid and asinine. What next? A hard nipple poking out from a blouse has to be blurred as well?! I wouldn’t doubt it, the way this issue seems to be progressing. But of course, it’s perfectly acceptable to see people getting their heads blown off on the public airways. Yeah, that’s not obscene, offensive or vulgar at all, and it certainly won’t scar anyone for life. :rolleyes:
What a bunch of cocksucking, motherfucking, shitbag, tit-pissing cunts both the FCC and the people who endlessly complain about TV programs they don’t watch for any reason other than to complain are. Fuck them.
There, I think I covered the seven dirty words and then some. Hope I didn’t scar anyone for life. :flip:
“tit-pissing cunts” LOL!
Oh please, not the dreaded “bluring of a hard nipple poking out of a blouse” torture. Next they might even foster the “totally insipid conversation” upon us (oops, wait … they already have).
It’s getting ridiulous, isn’t it? There are quite a few shows on network TV I find offensive. I don’t watch them. It’s really as simple as that. I don’t care if other people watch them. They might like them. Matters not to me if they are on TV or not, whether they are beeped, blurred or edited in any way. I just don’t turn my TV to that channel. I wish others could learn to do the same thing.
Heh, tit-pissing cunts made me laugh when I typed it out. I’m not too much of a cusser, so I actually had to think of something “bad” to say … that one though is a keeper and has been added to my cursing vocabularly for later use. :lol: