FCC Combing Air Tapes for Dirty Words? By Brooks Boliek – REUTERS
Ok, so now the FCC feels the need to look into how much sports players curse during lvie sporting events.? You know, the kind where they practically put a microphone in the participants asses.? And now the FCC is upset that hearing every word a football player speaks when he’s in the middle of a pig pile isn’t rosy.
“It looks like they want to end live broadcast TV,” said? one executive, who spoke only on the condition of anonymity.? “We already know that they aren’t afraid to go after news.”? The article doesn’t say anything about this source, but it’s OK because you don’t have to be and expert in anything to come to that conclusion.
So now the FCC wants to impose decency standards on athletes.? Then again, isn’t the purpose of the camera in the grass to make the experience more real?? I’m willing to bet it’s no shock that athletes use foul words, most of us do at one time or another.
The FCC’s imposition on our moral values seems less valid every time I hear it.? I fail to see how cutting down on the profanity in pro sports is any more than a symbolic gesture.? Remember George Carlin‘s Seven Dirty Words?? You can hear most of these after Ten PM on most premium cable channels.
Are they really so dirty and profane that all you have to do is leave your house or apartment to hear them?? If they’re _everywhere_, isn’t it pointless to put a moral standard on them?? And if the cursing is that offensive, why not just turn of the microphoes and let us listen to the announcers, like we have for the last eighty years.
Last but not least, if the United States Government has a riduclous budget deficit, wouldn’t it be better to tell the people at the FCC to shut the fuck up and spend their money on something better? You know, like the almost complete domination of terrestrial radio by one company.
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