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NBC apologises for Jane Fonda's offensive word
Reuters ^
| 2/15/08
Posted on 02/14/2008 7:45:17 PM PST by Mr. Brightside
NBC apologises for Jane Fonda's offensive word
Fri Feb 15, 2008 12:38am GMT
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Television network NBC apologized for itself and actress Jane Fonda on Thursday after she used an offensive word on the "Today Show."
NBC called it "a slip" and said they did not mean to offend audiences.
Fonda was on the program on Thursday with playwright Eve Ensler to discuss Ensler's award-winning work, "The Vagina Monologues," in which women talk about their sexuality using frank language about their bodies and references to genitalia.
"Vagina Monologues" has spawned a movement called V-Day that aims to stop violence against women, and it is celebrating its 10th anniversary on Thursday.
Over the years, celebrities including Oprah Winfrey, Salma Hayek, Sally Field, Glenn Close and Fonda have become involved in V-Day. On the "Today Show," Fonda explained how she first heard of "Vagina Monologues."
"I was asked to do a monologue called 'C***,' and I said, 'I don't think so. I've got enough problems," Fonda said. "Then I came to New York to see Eve and it changed my life."
The "Today Show" airs live on the U.S. East Coast, and the word was not muted or bleeped. Moments later program host Meredith Vieira apologized to audiences.
"Jane Fonda inadvertently said a word from the play that you don't say on television. It was a slip and obviously she apologizes and so do we," Vieira said. "We would do nothing to offend the audience, so please accept that apology."
U.S. broadcast standards and practices bar the use of the word uttered by Fonda.
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To: Mr. Brightside
And who wouldn’t want to start their day explaining to their 6 year old what that word meant?
No, really, we’re sorry, get over it already.
How much does that guy working the ten second delay get paid? I think I want his job, of course only about half the show would make it out over the air...
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posted on
02/14/2008 7:56:26 PM PST
by
jpf
To: Mr. Brightside
Time to complain to the FCC. The libs do it daily. We need to take full advantage of our outrage over this.
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posted on
02/14/2008 7:56:40 PM PST
by
mad_as_he$$
(John McCain - The Manchurian Candidate? http://www.usvetdsp.com/manchuan.htm)
To: Mr. Brightside
Apparently, that’s still one of the words from George Carlin’s monologue that can’t be used on TV.
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posted on
02/14/2008 7:56:49 PM PST
by
July 4th
To: Mr. Brightside
"We would do nothing to offend the audience, so please accept that apology." Huh? Since when?
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posted on
02/14/2008 7:57:31 PM PST
by
stevem
To: SC Swamp Fox
"...NBC should call all 6 people that saw it and apologize..."
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posted on
02/14/2008 7:57:41 PM PST
by
rlmorel
(Liberals: If the Truth would help them, they would use it.)
To: Mr. Brightside
CNUT
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posted on
02/14/2008 7:57:59 PM PST
by
jdm
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To: TigersEye; yorkie
NBC called it "a slip" and said they did not mean to offend audiences.To have Hanoi Jane on TV is offensive IMHO. Why wasn't she with the Code Pinkies?
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posted on
02/14/2008 7:58:02 PM PST
by
pandoraou812
(Out, damned spot......)
To: Mr. Brightside
Someone tuning in at just the right moment might have gotten the impression that the topic of discussion was the Clinton campaign.
To: Mr. Brightside
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posted on
02/14/2008 7:59:57 PM PST
by
RDTF
(kill the terrorists, punch the hippies)
To: Mr. Brightside
Is this the word that sounds especially blunt?
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posted on
02/14/2008 8:00:32 PM PST
by
Petronski
(Confutatis novus ordum: Nominatis asinus, flammis acribus addictis!)
To: robomatik
Jane has been a disgrace to her entire family...those before and after her...ever since she came of age.
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posted on
02/14/2008 8:00:45 PM PST
by
Mariner
To: mad_as_he$$
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posted on
02/14/2008 8:00:51 PM PST
by
RDTF
(kill the terrorists, punch the hippies)
To: Syncro
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posted on
02/14/2008 8:01:19 PM PST
by
rlmorel
(Liberals: If the Truth would help them, they would use it.)
To: Mr. Brightside
fonda IS what she said...
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posted on
02/14/2008 8:01:28 PM PST
by
Chode
(American Hedonist ©®)
To: pandoraou812
Jane Fonda is dead. She was hung by the neck for treason decades ago.
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posted on
02/14/2008 8:01:38 PM PST
by
TigersEye
(This is the age of the death of reason.)
To: Mr. Brightside
"Then I came to New York to see Eve and it changed my life." She has got to be the most faddish shallow person in the world. Everything changes her life. The anti-war movement. Exercise. The V monologs. She's like a goose. She wakes up in a new world every day.
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posted on
02/14/2008 8:01:52 PM PST
by
Richard Kimball
(Sure, they'd love to kill me, as long as they can do it without admitting I exist)
To: jdm
Yeah, that cnut is nucking futs.
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posted on
02/14/2008 8:02:04 PM PST
by
Mr. Brightside
( Ronald Reagan Would Back McCain - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1970504/posts)
To: Richard Kimball
She has got to be the most faddish shallow person in the world. Everything changes her life. The anti-war movement. Exercise. The V monologs. Plus she became a "Christian." Remember that one?
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posted on
02/14/2008 8:04:07 PM PST
by
Mr. Brightside
( Ronald Reagan Would Back McCain - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1970504/posts)
To: mad_as_he$$
"We would do nothing to offend the audience, so please accept that apology."Nothing, that is, except devote an entire discussion, in public, to the profane subject of this supposed artistic theatrical expression.
yitbos
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posted on
02/14/2008 8:05:03 PM PST
by
bruinbirdman
("Those who control language control minds. - Ayn Rand")
To: TigersEye
No she is not, but she sure should have been.
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posted on
02/14/2008 8:06:28 PM PST
by
pandoraou812
(Out, damned spot......)
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