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Opinion: Why the @#$% Is There So Much Profanity on Network TV?
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(Nov. 16) -- When a federal court ruled in July that the government didn't have the authority to enforce decency laws on broadcast TV, the networks told viewers not to worry. Sure, networks could "air uncut R-rated movies after 10 p.m. -- or have Letterman and Leno dropping f-bombs," a spokesman for the National Association of Broadcasters, put it, "but you never see or hear that material from broadcasters because of the relationships and expectations we've built with our audiences over decades." Apparently, that relationship isn't what it was once cracked up to be. In the few months ...
Strange Days: Fla. Governor May Pardon Jim Morrison
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(Nov. 8) -- The music is just about over for Gov. Charlie Crist, but he may have one more noteworthy task left before leaving office: a pardon of fellow Floridian Jim Morrison for indecent exposure charges during a concert 41 years ago. "Candidly, it's something that I haven't given a lot of thought to, but it's something I'm willing to look into in the time I have left," Crist told Washington, D.C.'s The Hill newspaper. "Anything is possible." Jan Persson, Redferns/Getty Images Jim Morrison of The Doors was found guilty of indecent exposure and profanity after an incident at a 1969 concert ...
Bidding Good Riddance to FCC Indecency Rules
By not in system - AOL News(July 14) -- In a big win for television and radio broadcasters, a federal appeals court has deemed the Federal Communication Commission's policing of "patently offensive" language unconstitutionally vague. In the last decade, the FCC and Congress clamped down on broadcasters, issuing fines and penalties following high-profile events such as Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction" and Bono's Golden Globes acceptance speech. The three-panel judge, wrote: "The absence of reliable guidance in the FCC's standards chills a vast amount of protected speech dealing with some of the most important and ...
Palin Says Rahm Emanuel Should be Fired for 'Retarded' Remark
By David Sessions - Politics DailyA week after the Wall Street Journal reported that White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel called liberals planning to run attack ads against Obama "f---ing retarded," Sarah Palin caught wind of the statement. Saying she heard about it from a "patriot" in Andover, Mass., Palin excoriated Emanuel on her Facebook page and called for his resignation. "Just as we'd be appalled if any public figure of Rahm's stature ever used the 'N-word' or other such inappropriate language, Rahm's slur on all God's children with cognitive and developmental disabilities -- and the people who love them -- is ...
Exporting Expletives: America's Contribution to Global Culture
By Elizabeth Lev - Politics DailyROME -- It started like a scene from an E.M. Forster novel. In a quiet Tuscan retreat, a handsome, well-dressed young man played piano in an exquisitely arranged drawing room. What he lacked in artistry, he made up for with gusto, and soon enough a weary British father asked him to curtail his musical efforts for the evening as there was a small child sleeping upstairs. The young man rose, shrugged his elegant shoulders and drawled in lightly Spanish-flavored English, "I don't f**king see why I f**king should, I f**king paid for this place same as you f**king did." Saucer-eyed, the father ...
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