urinate, damn and orgy now considered indecent

This is just bullshit. How far will the censorship go. Blacklisting The Rolling Stones song "The Bitch is Back". Editing out the words "urinate," "damn" and "orgy" from a radio show. They have the media so scared that they are now self-censoring. Can you say Big Brother.


Eye on F.C.C., TV and Radio Watch Words
By JACQUES STEINBERG

Published: May 10, 2004


The reverberations from this year's fiasco of a Super Bowl half-time show are reaching every corner of the broadcasting world, and not even the viewers of "Masterpiece Theater" are immune.

The producers of "Masterpiece Theater," intent on staying in the good graces of a Federal Communications Commission increasingly vigilant for instances of indecency, took a step last month they never had before. They chose not to make available to PBS member stations an unexpurgated version of the critically acclaimed British series "Prime Suspect," and instead sent out two edited versions: one with all of the salty language edited, and another with only some of the possibly offending words excised.


Taking similar cues from regulators, an Indianapolis radio station pre-empted words like "urinate," "damn" and "orgy" from going out over the air during a recent broadcast of Rush Limbaugh's talk show.

And classic rock radio stations have felt compelled to prune their playlists, striking songs like Elton John's "The Bitch Is Back" and "Bitch" by the Rolling Stones.

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"You will never be criticized for dumping something that may not have needed to be dumped. But God forbid we miss one and let it slip up," Mr. Boyce wrote.

Last week, a WABC technician heeding that warning used the "dump" button to prevent the word "parachute" from being heard. The technician did so because a host had tripped over the second half of the word in a way that made it sound as if he had stepped in something offensive, Mr. Boyce said.


http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/10/business/media/10FCC.html?ex=1084852800&en=ea3fa665e9336227&ei=5059&partner=AOL

You should see what gets censorted from bla...err. urban musicians. "Weed" "pot" "smoke" "high" "butt" "ass" "nipple" "clitoris" "mammary glands" "bitch" "ho" etc.

Yet Pink Floyd can say "shit" and Eric Clapton can sing about cocaine.

A month or so ago, a classic rock station polled their listeners for their favorite albums. 'Dark Side of the Moon' was #1, but the station wasn't allowed to play 'Money,' because it would be found 'indecent.'

Ain't just black folks being censored. We ALL are.

-as

but it's from a very big, censorship baby with big, wolflike teeth.

Coming next to a theatre near you! Mel Gibson stars in his own, Gibson enterprises (formerly Disney) blockbusting star-studded must see (and I mean must see) extravaganza! You'll see sadism, masochism, blood and guts, death and murder! And! It's family friendly! No foul words or pictures of women's knees.

Take your newborn! Take your impressionistic teenager! Take your sadly mistaken neighbors!

Don't miss it! OR ELSE!

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they will not have to deal with news of atrocities. There will be no way to discuss them. See, it all works </sarcasm>

Let's get back to the good old days when you could have war without people having to see the little girls on fire from napalm or bloody prison torture. Block the indecency, block the truth.

And block protests, too, because the ideas are just as indecent as the pictures or the words.

Now there will be no damn urination orgy's on the radio anymore. Huzzah!

All those conservative columnists that bitch about "conservative" groups being "censored" on campuses and the loopy obscure occurrences of censorship that sometimes happen in some countries where hate-speech is prosecuted will be jumping for joy when they can get libruls prosecuted for talking about the intolerance of churches that speak out against gays. And then sitcoms like Will and Grace will be declared hate-speech against chrischuns.

The word "choice" will be banned because it will be equated with killing children and therefore an anti-chrischun hate-speech word.

little by little, bit by bit...