Pages Tagged “indecency”
Blog Posts
- Explicitly Tainted Tracks
It’s silly to mark a song as having explicit lyrics only because another song on the same album does – especially since the song, not the album, is now the base unit of music.
- Inadvertent Language
This morning’s Los Angeles Times article, “A %$#@ slippery slope on raw talk?”, discusses the recent court ruling that relaxed FCC restrictions on inadvertent swearing. On one side, watchdog groups (and the FCC) are complaining that this could lead to swearing and nudity throughout prime time. (Won’t someone think of the children?) On the other […]
- Kids’ language and the media
KCRW ran a story on the indecency wars this morning, and quoted someone who was concerned that kids are picking up bad language from broadcast media. Yeah, right. Broadcast media is so locked down they can’t find that kind of language there. When I was in middle school, I spent a week working at a […]
- Desperate in Decency
It looks like the FCC isn’t completely insane. After four months, they concluded that the now-infamous Desperate Housewives locker room promo isn’t indecent after all. “Although the scene apparently is intended to be titillating, it simply is not graphic or explicit enough to be indecent under our standard.” I saw the spot—or at least something […]