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Author Topic: FCC Bans the F-word Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 03-19-2004 06:42 PM                  It's official: Get the "f*uck" outta the public airwaves. >>> Phil  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 03-19-2004 07:02 PM                        Well God damn it all to hell! I fucking love the f-word on my broadcast TV! Until now, they used it sooooooo often that I became addicted! It enhanced my life! If my free broadcast TV doesn't have the F-word, I will commit suicide!  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-19-2004 07:08 PM                     Thats funny! Back in the late 70's when I worked in broadcast TV it was banned and any swearing/obsenitys carried heavy fines if it went out over the air. Wasn't this whay everyone had tape delays back then....... Mark  |  IP: Logged Steve Kraus Film God Posts: 4094 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 03-19-2004 07:37 PM                    Wow...light brown oxide on Quad. This is all so stupid. I'm not a fan of shock jocks but the fact that they have millions of listeners who enjoy their shows seems to me a large segment of the public is accepting of this programming as is. So where does the FCC get off telling them they can no longer have these shows? I can see some value in going after someone who hits the public with something unexpected but surely the listeners of Stern and the others know what they are in for. As always, if you don't like it change the station and puhleeeze don't bring up how the little children will be damaged. That is an assertion that will never be proven because it's untrue and in any case the kids hear worse on the playground everyday.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 03-19-2004 08:43 PM                     One thing is certain: The FCC is NOT moving to ban dick hardening pill commercials. At any time of day, and on most channels, you can count on seeing ads for Cialis, Levitra, Viagara, Enzite, etc. I'm certainly not "Smilin' Bob" happy about this crap. I turned on CNN Headline News this morning before going to work. In the 7:00am hour, there's some commercial on TV selling drugs to help women who are sexually frigid. Kids aren't stupid. They would see the sly grin on this red-haired lady's face and know she's wanting to get back the desire to screw. The FCC needs to get consistent. If they are going to ban the F-word from non-premium TV channels, they need to also ban all the drug commercials that make people think about that F-word. For that matter, they just need to ban all prescription drug commercials from TV period. If the pharaceutical industry wasn't spending many billions of dollars per year on mass advertising (especially through TV) maybe the damned drugs themselves wouldn't be so stupidly expensive. $150 for a month's supply of Advair to treat asthma? Some MBA suit needs a kick upside the head for that.  |  IP: Logged Adam Martin I'm not even gonna point out the irony. Posts: 3686 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Nov 2000 posted 03-19-2004 10:08 PM                     I agree. Prescription medication is only available if your physician thinks you need it (well, theoretically, anyway) and should not be advertised to the general public. The physician should be the one making the decision whether or not a patient needs medication, not the patient telling the physician what medication he wants. Yeah, yeah, you can whine about "if the patient knows something new is available for their ailment, they'll go see their doctor." I'm not buying it. If you have problems, you should be seeing your doctor regularly anyway. Trust me, the pharmaceutical companies will let your doctor know about every medication they come out with.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-19-2004 10:40 PM                        I don't see anything wrong with having a few standards of decency on the public airwaves. It's not about the kids...I don't have any, don't plan to have any. But it should be possible to leave your TV or radio on and not be subjected to a bunch of random foul language. It just isn't necessary! Anyone who can't express themselves without using a lot of obscenity is just showing their ignorance. Don't get me wrong, there's times when a good loud "FUCK!" just needs to be said, but restraint is not a bad thing. Howard Stern should be on cable TV anyway...then he wouldn't have to put the blurry masks over the titties.  |  IP: Logged Steve Kraus Film God Posts: 4094 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 03-19-2004 10:56 PM                    they need to also ban all the drug commercials that make people think about that F-word. Oh come on. That's about as silly as I've heard. You're worried about words that some kids might think? How do you know they aren't thinking "making love" assuming they give it any thought at all?  |  IP: Logged David Favel Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 764 From: Ashburton, New Zealand Registered: Feb 2002 posted 03-19-2004 11:59 PM                     Bono got away with it because he didn't use it to describe a sexual act. So, it's O.K. to say "I'm fucked", but not O.K. to say "I'm fucked from all the fucking I've done" God Bless America  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 03-20-2004 12:39 AM                     I don't think it's silly at all to make demands for the FCC to be consistent. The FCC wants to ban the F-word from use on non-commercial channels to get a little more control on shows that unpredictably jump over into TV-MA territory. That in and of itself is not a bad thing. But I think their moral grandstanding is just bullshit when they allow every commercial break on TV to have a penis hardening commercial on it. Others may disagree, but I think all of those impotence drug commercials are TV-MA. The F-word can be used as many parts of speech besides a verb describing sex. Viagara commercials are only about getting one's dick hard for sex. So, from one point of view, the impotence drug commercials are even more for adults only than the F-word.  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 03-20-2004 02:22 AM                  Mike said: quote: ...about the kids...I don't have any... Gosh, I wish I could say that... I'm sure I have some kids somewhere... Bobby: You seem to be really obsessed with the dick-erecting commercials. Does thou protest/speak too loud? I personally DO NOT have any problem in that department that I need some "help" with, but I'm sure it is a benefit to others. I see nothing wrong with those commercials. >>> Phil  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 03-20-2004 02:24 AM                        OK. The f-word has been baaned on the public airwaves. Which shows had the f-word in them that aired on the public airwaves?  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 03-20-2004 02:28 AM                  quote: ...f-word has been baaned... Not sure which ones, Joe. But the FCC sheepishly thought they can dictate public morality. >>> Phil  |  IP: Logged Carl Martin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1424 From: Oakland, CA, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 03-20-2004 02:52 AM                        hey FCC, go FCC yourself! carl  |  IP: Logged David Favel Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 764 From: Ashburton, New Zealand Registered: Feb 2002 posted 03-20-2004 03:45 AM                     http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/8226184.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp "The FCC's declaration came as the commission on Thursday also announced three indecency fines for radio broadcasts - two against Infinity Broadcasting, including one for a Howard Stern show, and one against a subsidiary of San Antonio-based Clear Channel Communications. But the commissioners did not propose a fine for Bono's expletive during the 2003 Golden Globe Awards because, they said, they had never before said that virtually any use of the F-word violated its rules. Indeed, the commission specifically rejected earlier findings that occasional use of the F-word was acceptable, including a ruling by its enforcement bureau last October that Bono's comment was not indecent or obscene because he did not use the word to describe a sexual act. The FCC received hundreds of complaints after Bono, the lead singer of the Irish rock group U2, said, "This is really, really, f------ brilliant," and FCC Chairman Michael Powell asked his fellow commissioners to overturn the staff decision."  |  IP: Logged

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