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Profanity and Poetry
BMLTV visits a Java Poetry open mic and asks some poets what they think about profanity and its place as a tool of their craft.
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Little Gordon
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R-rated baseball press conference
The Mariners, a team with so little vocal leadership that it's difficult to gauge just how they feel, say they are ticked off.
Moments after the Los Angeles Angels completed a three-game sweep with a 5-4 victory at Safeco Field, manager John McLaren launched into an expletive-laced tirade. The Mariners, a team with so little vocal leadership that it's difficult to gauge just how they feel, say they are ticked off. ... more -
Top 10 angry on-camera meltdowns
It's already been an exciting week for accidental on-air cursing, with New York broadcast institution Sue Simmons interrupting NBC's Medium to ask what the F*ck New York is doing, but Sue and Bill O'Reilly just left us wanting more. So video guru Richard Blakeley (who's explored reportorial bloopers before) collected ten of our very favorite meltdowns by people whose job it is to not curse on TV.
Some of these went out live, some were stolen from satellite feeds, but they're all golden. From Jim Ryan telling Dick Oliver that he'll explain how to be a reporter later to broadcast legend Bill Plante throwing a tantrum at the White House to vintage Sam Donaldson and Leslie Stahl, it's a cavalcade of rage and frustration. Like life. It's already been an exciting week for accidental on-air cursing, with New York broadcast institution Sue Simmons interrupting NB... more -
NBC Anchor Sue Simmons Blurts the F Bomb on the Air (Video)
Longtime WNBC-TV news anchor Sue Simmons blurted an expletive on the air during a news promo Monday evening.
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Origin of curse words
Discretion: Profanity. If you're sensitive to that.
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Randi Rhodes suspended from Air-America, calls Clintion 'F*cking Whore'
MSNBC may have one regular Air America correspondent on its airwaves, but shockingly the host who called Hillary Clinton a “big fucking whore” was not her! It was Randi Rhodes, here with Bill Clinton, and she said it during a speech at an Air America event where she appeared on behalf of her employer, and a video clip of it popped up on YouTube.
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F*ck yes to the F-Word, and the S-word and....
Below is a story about the FCC arguing about profanity before the supreme court.
By Robert Barnes
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, March 17, 2008; 1:13 PM
The Supreme Court today announced it would review the Federal Communications Commission's policy banning even the fleeting use of expletives on the airwaves, the first time in 30 years the court has considered broadcast decency standards.
The FCC in 2004 reversed its previous policy and said even the one-time use of obscenities on broadcast television and radio was a violation of decency standards. The agency reprimanded Fox Broadcasting for separate incidents in 2002 and 2003 when singer Cher and celebrity Nicole Richie, during live award shows, used variations of a vulgar, four-letter word.
The FCC said the rules were necessary to protect the public from declining standards of decency, and said technological advances made it possible for networks to better police what went out over the airwaves.
But the networks sued, saying the rules would chill artistic expression, and won. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit in New York said the FCC's "new policy sanctioning 'fleeting expletives' is arbitrary and capricious" and raised questions about First Amendment protections.
The appeals court said the FCC had not adequately explained why it changed its policy, and sent it back for more work.
The Parents Television Council, which has sent hundreds of thousands of indecency complaints to the FCC in recent years, said at the time that the ruling "has cleared the way for television networks to use the f-word and s-word in front of children at any time of the day."
The Bush administration urged the Supreme Court to take the case. The appeals court ruling, Solicitor General Paul D. Clement said, had placed the commission in the "untenable position of having a grant of authority that the public expects it to exercise . . . but that the Second Circuit has indicated cannot be meaningfully exercised'' consistent with the First Amendment.
The FCC forbids radio and television broadcast materialthat is sexual or indecent between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. Cable and satellite television and radio channels are outside the FCC's jurisdiction.
The incidents that drew the FCC's ire began in 2002, when Cher won a Billboard Music Awards honor and responded, in part: "I've also had critics for the last 40 years saying that I was on my way out every year. Right. So [expletive] 'em.''
Richie's transgression came during the same awards show the next year, in a dialogue with Paris Hilton, and in 2003,U2 lead singer Bono uttered an expletive in calling his award "[expletive] brilliant" during a show on NBC. The FCC originally ruled that the incident was not indecent because Bono did not use the word to describe sexual intercourse.
While the FCC reprimanded the networks, it did not fine them because the rules were not in place at the time the incidents took place.
The case is FCC v. Fox Television Stations. It will be argued in the fall. Below is a story about the FCC arguing about profanity before the supreme court. By Robert Barnes Washington Post Staff Writer ... more -
Steven Pinker on profanity
"Steven Pinker discusses profanity."
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The Significance of A Modern F-Bomb
Can the media finally get over the fact that the word fuc* really isn't as big of a deal as they make it. Come on, if there is any a motley group that spouts around their sailor mouths it is journalists. Come on - what an easy, delightful word to utter and it's made into a huge story. Let's just get over all this Frivilous Unlawful Carnal Knowledge. Can the media finally get over the fact that the word fuc* really isn't as big of a deal as they make it. Come on, if there is an... more
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