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Thread ID: 10001 | Posts: 20 | Started: 2003-09-24
2003-09-24 01:29 | User Profile
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Study: Use of Profanity Increasing on TV Mon Sep 22,10:19 PM ET
LOS ANGELES - Television is cussing up an increasingly blue streak, according to a study of the major broadcast networks.
"During the 2002-2003 season, the broadcast networks attempted to rewrite the book on language standards for television," the Parents Television Council, a watchdog group, said in a report released Monday.
The council said it studied all primetime entertainment series from a two-week period in 1998, 2000 and 2002 and found a jump in profanity on "virtually every network" and in every time slot.
The group called on the TV industry to "get serious about reducing the flood of vulgarity. ... Barring that, the FCC (news - web sites) needs to get serious about enforcing broadcast decency laws," the group said of the Federal Communications Commission (news - web sites).
The study examined ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, WB and UPN.
During the so-called "family hour," from 8-9 p.m., foul language increased by 94.8 percent between 1998 and 2002, the study found. It rose by 109 percent during the 9 p.m. hour in the same period.
The smallest increase, 38.7 percent, occurred during the last hour of primetime, 10-11 p.m., when young children are least likely to be in the audience, the council said.
The group noted what it called "minor" improvements.
Foul language in the 8 p.m. hour on Fox fell 25 percent in the study period. But the study found profanity rose 75 percent during the 9 p.m. hour on Fox.
On ABC, offensive language decreased by 17 percent in the study period, mostly because of improvements during the latter two primetime hours. But profanity was up by 61.7 percent during the family hour, the study found.
An ABC spokesman Monday said the network had not seen the report and declined comment. A Fox spokesman declined comment.
In a similar, earlier study, the PTC found that sexual content on TV was less frequent but more explicit.
2003-09-24 01:32 | User Profile
[B]"We don't say f**k at the table asshole!" --Mr. McCormack (Chickenpox episode of South Park) [/B]
2003-09-24 02:22 | User Profile
TV is getting sick. Shows such as 'Nip/Tuck' and 'Law and Order: Special Victims Unit,' belong on cable, not network television. But smut sells. Little hard, though, to shake the feelings that the Antichrist has finally arrived....
2003-09-24 02:50 | User Profile
People who make TV shows have a choice to pull down our culture or lift it up. That they choose to pull it down shows what kind of people they are and also shows their lack of concern for the victims of the destructive behavior they promote.
Cussing has become so normal on TV shows that it no longer works as a distinguishing asset.
The TV show Stargate is great. It's high quality TV (big budget, good acting, interesting plots, etc.). There is very rarely any cussing (one word every several episodes), and then it's mild and only said by one guy who is suppose to be a little rough. But, guess what, it comes on late at night after decent bedtimes (I don't watch it on cable).
The biggest reason to have cable is now to have some clean TV. Remember when the joke was that cable was filth?
2003-09-24 04:24 | User Profile
I find it funny to see (and not surprised) to see that bastion of "conservatism" and "family values," [B]Fox,[/B] listed here. I make it a point to watch as little prime time t.v. as possible, but have seen enough of it to know that Fox has some of the most tasteless stuff on the tube.
2003-09-24 05:59 | User Profile
Crude language, maybe, but can anyone tell me when prime time nudity became okay? I watch very little TV but I taped the latest Helen of Troy and... uh, I didn't know you could do that on the tube. This was a regular station with commercials and all that, not Cinemax or one of those.
It just surprised me because it was broadcast at a time when the kids had to be watching. There was also a pretty nasty depiction of Agamemnon raping Helen near the end, which struck me as astoundingly tasteless even given the new low standards television seems to have embraced.
One thing is constant: Even with a story set in Myceneaen Greece, they had to load Homer with femininst propaganda. I found that more offensive than naughty words or nudity.
2003-09-24 09:12 | User Profile
Skyrocketing profanity, the Year of the Fag..... it's all part of the eww's Big Push. With the "Supreme" Court vermin preparing to make fag "marriage" a reality, they sense that the time is right to accelerate the decomposition process at the media end as well.
2003-09-24 14:40 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Sertorius]I find it funny to see (and not surprised) to see that bastion of "conservatism" and "family values," [B]Fox,[/B] listed here. I make it a point to watch as little prime time t.v. as possible, but have seen enough of it to know that Fox has some of the most tasteless stuff on the tube.[/QUOTE]
Yes and then "Fox" news likes to complain about the decline in morality in America and all the crap on TV. If this ain't hypocrisy I don't know what is?
Ragnar, I didn't see those scenes in the "Helen of Troy", but then again I didn't watch much of it because I thought it was so boring. TV nowadays in my opinion is so pathetic.
2003-09-24 14:52 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Ragnar]Crude language, maybe, but can anyone tell me when prime time nudity became okay? [/QUOTE]
EVERYTHING is okay on braodcast TV (you know, those billions of dollars worth of public airwaves that the government gives a few big corporations for free). The FCC does not appear to hold broadcasters to any decency standards anymore. The only thing holding back the networks from showing f@ggots sodomizing on each other is the fear of losing money by losing advertisers by offending the public too much. But, inch by inch, as the public becomes accustomed to the new lows, the networks push further the next season.
The good leftist/neocon media wants to do its share to destroy America. If people are running around being decent, they won't be demanding multicultural Big Brother take care of them.
2003-09-24 19:56 | User Profile
[QUOTE]Crude language, maybe, but can anyone tell me when prime time nudity became okay? I watch very little TV but I taped the latest Helen of Troy and... uh, I didn't know you could do that on the tube. [/QUOTE]
If they're showing male-female nudity, you can bet it's a dry run for what they really want to hit you with...male/male and female/female nudity. (And of course the ol' black male/white female combo that - to ZOG - is neck-and-neck with [I]two tools touching [/I] as the preferred erotica of America Today.)
2003-09-25 02:49 | User Profile
Betty Bakes-A-Lot: "I don't see why people blame more-profanity-on-TV on the Jews. I mean, what do Jews have to do with TV shows?"
Patty PTAMeeting: "Right, Betty! Those evil anti-Sandwich people at OD are full of baloney! Such racism!"
:jester: :jester: :jester:
2003-09-25 03:17 | User Profile
I rarely, if ever, watch the television anymore. Its disconcerting to be reminded of how such filth, so puerile and vulgar, is enjoyed by millions of Americans.
2003-09-25 20:47 | User Profile
It's almost funny what people will complain about. Homosexuality is OK. Negro thuggery is idolized. Have fun, destroy whatever you don't like, screw anything that moves, none of that will be a problem... but god forbid you say "hell" or "ass" a few too many times, oh no, we can't have that!
2003-09-25 21:35 | User Profile
This is why we need either a military or economic disaster.
2003-09-25 22:20 | User Profile
Because a military/economic disaster will make people stand up en masse and demand cleaner television?
More likely the media would just play it as usual: inform everyone who the "bad guys" are, and why we need to take a block eraser to the Constitution to stop them and get the country back on track.
Meanwhile the telesmut industry will continue as usual, providing mindless (and now soulless) entertainment to distract the masses from the reality around them...
2003-09-25 22:48 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Rumblestrip]It's almost funny what people will complain about. Homosexuality is OK. Negro thuggery is idolized. Have fun, destroy whatever you don't like, screw anything that moves, none of that will be a problem... but god forbid you say "hell" or "ass" a few too many times, oh no, we can't have that![/QUOTE]
** Ms. Cartman: "Eric dear? I just got a call from your friend Kyle's mother. She said that this show is naughty, and might make you a potty mouth."
Cartman: "That's a bunch of crap! Kyle's mom is a dirty Jew!"
Ms. Cartman: "Ohhh, ok hon."
--From South Park, episode 106**
:lol:
2003-09-26 22:22 | User Profile
Heh. That episode was actually quite accurate. The self-described caring parents go nutso over a stupid TV show and never even consider that maybe that fatass kid was the bad influence.
2003-09-27 13:51 | User Profile
I always get a wry chuckle -- it USED to be that when a character said Gawd-damn (so spelled in honor of our Christian brothers and sisters) -- they bleeped :censored: the damn, and left the gawd. NOW they leave the damn and bleep the gawd!:wacko:
2003-09-27 17:08 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Rumblestrip]Heh. That episode was actually quite accurate. The self-described caring parents go nutso over a stupid TV show and never even consider that maybe that fatass kid was the bad influence.[/QUOTE]
Whats even more is that in the movie the same Jewish mother starts a fricking war with Canada over the same stupid show. She's f*cking pyscho!
[B] Canadian Prime Minister: The film is R-rated and is not intended for small children.
Sheila Broflovski: Oh, but of course our kids are gonna see it!
Canadian Prime Minister: Can I finish? Can, can I finish? The United States has graphic violence on television all the time! We can't see how a movie with foul language would piss you off so much!
Sheila Broflovski: Because it's EVIL!**
Then they start implanting v-chips into children's brains so as make them not swear so much.
Then just before the fighting begins she saids ** "Just remember what the MPAA says: Horrific, deplorable violence is okay, as long as people don't say any naughty words!"**
Although my favorite quote from the film is the famous ** Chef: Haven't you heard of the Emancipation Proclamation? General: I don't listen to hip-hop. **
:lol:
2003-10-03 23:59 | User Profile
Yes, we must blame Canada. It isn't the jews causing all of these problems, oh no, not the jews. Blame Canada!