When the Founding Fathers preserved our right to free speech they were thinking of the oppression that many Americans had suffered under tyranny that prevented them from expressing political views, opinions on science, or anything that defamed local, national or church leaders. It had nothing to do with profanity. That was expressly forbidden by law in most all communities. If you said damn you could end up in the stocks.
The FCC controls radio and television broadcasting in the United States. You would think that they would want everything to be clean and of good report. Instead our weak-butt government has condoned the bleep to protect our tender ears from profanity. They condone the blur to make sure we do not see male and female private parts and women's breast.
The blur still works.
The bleep does not.
Have you noticed that the time-delay on the the bleep on some channels has changed so that you can still hear the filth? How clever of television and television channels to make the the bleep worthless. That is if the the bleep ever had any value. In my opinion it's disruptive and stupid.
Why didn't the FCC just say NO PROFANITY! NO SEXUALLY EXPLICIT JOKES!
Would that have been too complicated?
As for the blur why didn't they say NO MORE EXPLICIT SEX SCENES!
Nudity in itself is harmless. A Zulu chief supposedly said that clothing led to promiscuity, not nudity. I guess he was referring to peek-a-boo-type clothing. Our double-standard on nudity would apply this statement only to women being in the buff.
But the chief had a point. Seeing your opposite-sex friends grow up in the nude would make being nude "ho-hum," wouldn't it?
You need a hot climate for nudity to work. In our northern climbs we would just get use to nudity in the summer when everybody would put their cloths back on. We wouldn't get use to nudity again until the next summer.
I don't know about you, but when Jay Leno and other stand-up comics decide to dwell in the gutter, I switch channels. When Chappelle's Show goes into the gutter to stereotype black people, I turn it off.
Don't ask me why Chappelle does that to his own race.
I'll say this for him. He does not use profanity just for the sake of using it. It's not in every skit.
The Daily Show is infantile when it comes to profanity and gutter English.
You would think that an intelligent person like Jon Daily would grow up.
Profanity is not funny.
Anything that is that common lost its humor ages ago.
Top comedians seldom use profanity or gutter language although some have a double standard. They use profanity and its friends on the rode but not on public media. Bad language will never get you to the big time in my opinion. But as long as profanity is offensive, guys like Daily will use it.
It stirs up the emotions.
It stirs me to change channels.
Leno's writers are brainless twits who will succeed in removing him from the historical company of Bob Hope, Jack Benny, and Johnny Carson.
I think we need a law slapped on cable companies. They could only charge for and broadcast channels acceptable to the buyer of their services. That way, you can cut out the Comedy Channel and other profanity and sexually-explicit channels and not pay for them either. I've heard that this is in the works.
You could also cut out all of those shopping channels, channels that seem like nothing but an endless line of commercials, and any channel that mainly broadcast stuff outside your genre.
Wait!
I've got it!
Sell your television sets and do something useful with your time.
I learned that in Arizona.
A number of families there have no television sets at all. We have some families like that in Idaho. They want their kids to read and play softball instead.
How clever!
The End
Television, FCC, profanity, nudity, cable, Founding Fathers, Zulu, Comedy, Bob Hope, Johnny Carson, Leno, Chappelle.
John T. Jones, Ph.D. (tjbooks@hotmail.com, a retired VP of R&D for Lenox China, is author of detective & western novels, nonfiction (business, scientific, engineering, humor), poetry, etc. Former editor of Ceramic Industry Magazine. He is Executive Representative of IWS sellers of Tyler Hicks wealth-success books and kits. He also sells TopFlight flagpoles. He calls himself "Taylor Jones, the hack writer." More info: http://www.tjbooks.com Business web site: http://www.aaaflagpoles.com |
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