17 November 2006

Bleep crime

It is bad enough that the American broadcast rules are so restrictive that it is impossible to see the average film without significant cuts of language irrespective of the time the film is shown. Violence, of course, suffers less.

Well these rules do not go far enough thinks Bill Johnson of the American Decency Association because they do not prohibit "implied cursing" in advertisements. "Implied cursing" is, it seems, where certain words are "bleeped out" in adverts leading some to believe that they might be obscene.

"This degradation, this desensitization leads to an accommodation and causes an erosion of our ability to recognize the difference between what is pleasing to God and what is not pleasing" says Johnson.

I say f**k that!

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