Children Ready for Profanity Assault

by timmyb | June 6, 2007 at 11:06 am
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An American judge has given warning that a landmark court ruling on the use of "fleeting expletives" could open the gates to a flood of celebrity 'F-words' on primetime television.

US networks were celebrating today after a US appeals court threw out a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) ruling against the Fox television network, saying that the agency's new policy on indecency was "arbitrary and capricious".

It seems like the American TV audience will shrink (hopefully) because of moral and evangelical audiences that will have to turn off their televisions because the "flood" of "fleeting expletives" that will undoubtedly appear on broadcast television.

While I agree with first amendment rights, allowing expletives on prime-time TV seems to be the least effective way to retain a young audience.  Not because they don't want to hear them, but because their parents won't let them watch them.

While some argue that children hear these types of words at school and with their friends, it seems like the FCC is trying to force national television to exert some type of responsibility and try to refrain from this, though responsibility and network TV rarely ever end up in the same sentence.

If this ruling is upheld, it seems like the personal content-filtering industry is going to explode.

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