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The Indonesian Broadcasting Commission (KPI) has issued a second warning to Trans TV for its "vulgar" comedy hit Extravaganza. "This is the last warning. If Trans TV fails to make improvements, we will order the station to stop the show," KPI commissioner Yazirwan Uyun said here Monday. The broadcasting commission also announced it had reprimanded Trans TV for two other comedies, Ngelenong Nyok and Suami-Suami Takut Istri (Husbands afraid of wives), and Global TV for its anime series One Piece. The warnings come following the KPI's 13-day review of 285 episodes of 92 comedies, variety shows and children's programs aired...

Bill Cosby's popularity in the African American community hasn't been the same since he started speaking his mind about it. He has told parents to start parenting. Told the community it was complicit in the misogyny, vulgarity, violence and racism in black culture.

Suspension Over the 'V-Word' CROSS RIVER, N.Y. (AP) -- A Westchestr public high school has suspended three girls who disobeyed officials by saying the word ``vagina'' during a reading from the play ``The Vagina Monologues.'' Stay tuned to WCBS 880 on air and online for more on this story from Reporter Catherine Cioffi Their stand is being applauded by the play's author, Eve Ensler, who said today that the school should be celebrating the three juniors. Ensler asked ``don't we want our children to resist authority when it's not appropriate and wise?'' The students, Megan Reback, Elan Stahl and Hannah...

While Rep. Linda Sánchez (D-Calif.) played no formal role in the new Speaker’s inaugural festivities Thursday, she did play a key after-hours role at the gay bar Cobalt (in downtown DC), where she wound up judging a “best package contest"...

"Stop laughing. It's not funny." Those were the solemn words of Jerry Seinfeld during his visit with David Letterman in his effort to rehabilitate the image of his co-star, Michael Richards, aka "Kramer." Richards, as you know, flipped out at an L.A. comedy club and began screaming racial epithets at some black patrons. It was an ugly scene captured on video, and the actor has been apologizing ever since – doing his public penance for a truly shameful exhibition. Watch 'Kramer' grovel on Letterman show The "act" has ignited a national debate on the use of the "N-word." But, having...

WCVB-TV executives have banned swearing in the newsroom after the "f-bomb" made it into one of their Friday newscasts. The station broke in to carry a live press conference on University of Vermont student Michelle Gardner-Quinn, whose body had been found 15 miles from campus. After the press conference, the station replayed an edited portion of it during its 5 p.m. newscast. During that segment, as the Burlington, Vt., police chief spoke, a WCVB producer could be heard shouting the "F" word in the background. The Herald obtained and reviewed a copy of the segment. Sources say news executives fired...

Media watchdogs are barking over an MTV cartoon that portrays a Snoop Dogg-like character leading two women around on leashes - before scooping up their poop. The new MTV2 animated series "Where My Dogs At?" satirizes such Hollywood stars as Michael Jackson, Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan. But industry pros are incensed over the portrayal of women and blacks in episode four. The half-hour episode, "Woofie Loves Snoop," debuted last month - and until it was removed yesterday, the offending clip was just a click away on MTV.com. "Seinfeld"'s Jason Alexander voices Snoopathon Esquire III, who struts out of his...

My first reaction to the LGBT protesting the censorship of a drawing in their office on campus was, "this the same group of students that censored the flyers for the How Homosexual Behavior Can Change workshop put on by Students Defending Christian Principles." At the 2004 Student Fair I caught a LGBT person taking all the promotional flyers off an SDCP information table. After the Fair the flyers I posted on the Student Life bulletin boards disappeared within hours after I posted them and continued to disappear when I reposted them. In the October 8th, 2004 issue of The Michigan...

MEDWAY (MA) – For parents of elementary school students here, a slogan for a nearby business stinks. A Medway man's septic-system service boasts about his work with the words ``(Expletive) happens'' on trucks. ``It's not something I'd want my granddaughter to see,'' said Beverly Rechle, the grandmother of a McGovern Elementary School student. But they do see it all day long as the trucks pull in and out across from the entrance to the school. ``I don't think it's a good thing for my son to read,'' said Debbie Lawton, mom to a first-grader. ``If he saw it, I'm sure...

Man Charged After Urinating On Woman University of Michigan Students Involved In Racial IncidentUPDATED: 11:43 am EDT September 18, 2005 An Ann Arbor man could face charges of indecent exposure and other serious charges after he allegedly urinated on woman because she was Asian. Police are calling it a case of ethnic intimidation after the 21-year-old man made derogatory statements to the Asian couple who were walking just a few blocks from the University of Michigan campus, then urinated on a woman. The suspect and the victim are University of Michigan students. Investigators say the man urinated off a second-floor...

I have been watching NFL football today, one of my few TV viewing vices. The games were great, especially the Lions finally winning an opener in a convincing fashion. However throughout the games, on those channels as well as several others I watched are these totally vulgar ads. For those of you who have not seen them the theme is that 'cable TV sucks'. The visuals involve various things being sucked onto the TV screen, shoes, one old mans clothes except for his underwear, etc. Most parents I know have worked diligently to help our kids understand what words and...

NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Ford Motor Co. is ending a newly formed relationship with rapper Eminem, according to a published report. The Detroit News reported that the split comes because of concerns of Ford executives over the title and lyrics of the artist's newest song. The three-word title includes a vulgarity. The paper reports that Ford officials were initially thrilled when Detroit-native Eminem asked the nation's No. 2 automaker for a hot vehicle, not yet on the market, to use in the disputed song's music video. Ford gave the rapper a Ford Fusion midsize sedan, according to the report.

The easiest way to get a "green light" for a movie in Hollywood these days is to steal someone else's old idea. That old idea, however, must be updated. With Hollywood there's just one formula: cinematic remakes of vintage TV shows or old movies are almost always made sleazier -- more sexual, more violent, more obscene and more cynical -- than the original. According to Hollywood's calculations, today's young audiences will be disappointed if there isn't an over-the-top raunchy moment every two minutes or so. This is the mandate to be "modern," to avoid the stench of appearing -- watch...

San Jose, Calif. -- San Jose State has suspended its dance team after a sexy routine at a basketball game triggered a confrontation involving one of the performers. The team is suspended until it develops guidelines to represent the university "at the highest possible standard," the division of intercollegiate athletics decided last week. The move came a month after a shouting match between an elderly alumnus and 20-year-old dancer Tarah DiNardo, whose arm was apparently bruised by a university sports official who intervened. The confrontation -- captured on videotape by a parent -- erupted after a dance during a March...

LOS ANGELES -- LURID talk with guests and callers about sex acts. Scatological references complete with occasional sound effects. Derisive jokes about homosexuals. Is it Howard Stern on late-night cable? No, this is Spanish-language radio in Los Angeles, "in flagrante" and in broad daylight. While the nation's guardians of public decency have been focusing attention on the exposed breast of Janet Jackson, Latino DJs have been carrying on with raunchy talk-radio shows that sometimes out-shock Stern. But unlike the public fuss made over Stern and the Jackson incident during the Super Bowl, daytime indecency on Spanish-language radio has developed mostly...

Swearing on stage could cost stars $500 Officials in Florida want to fine rockers for swearing during public performances.The The St Petersburg Times reports city councillors want to charge $500 (£272) for each swear word.Council member Bill Foster told the paper: "Constant vulgarity is not going to be tolerated. We can't be the morality police, and we can't be the constant saviors of the First Amendment. But we can dictate what goes on in our public parks."Officials decided to take action after residents complained about an October performance by rapper 50 Cent.They want promoters to put up a $10,000...

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Sports are supposed to remain as an inspirational oasis in our culture, a place where merit and performance, and even dazzling feats of prowess grab our attention. Too often in recent years, as professional sports has grown massively popular, the gap between athletic performance on the field and athletic misbehavior off the field has widened into a chasm. But the latest shocking sports news says something worse: now expectations of virtue in sports fans are also falling apart. Even before the sleaze parade known at this year’s Super Bowl unfolded, sports pages were lamenting what was happening at the University...

Into the sewer February 2, 2004 Note: This column contains language that may be offensive to some readers. When Jack Paar, television's late-night talk show pioneer, died last week at 85, every obituary mentioned the time he walked off his NBC show in a huff, angry that the network's censors had cut a joke he'd recorded the day before. The joke turned on a misunderstanding of the letters "WC" -- the initials of "water closet," an Anglicism for toilet. By today's standards, it was an almost completely innocuous story -- a somewhat labored yarn about an English tourist writing to...

Published: To the Editor: Re "No Joke! 37 Years After Death Lenny Bruce Receives Pardon" (front page, Dec. 24): The welcome and overdue pardon of Lenny Bruce is a commentary on how the world has changed in 40 years. I represented him and Howard Solomon, the owner of Cafe au Go Go, in 1964 when they were arrested for obscenity and had them released from custody that night after a midnight hearing at the apartment of Appellate Justice Arthur Markewich. I had the pleasure and good fortune to see Lenny Bruce's act; he was brilliant and funny. In comparison with...

Bill Would Ban Some Swear Words From Radio, TV By Erica Werner Associated Press Writer Published: Dec 15, 2003 WASHINGTON (AP) - A California lawmaker, upset that rock star Bono used vulgarity on live TV and regulators have done nothing about it, wants to ban certain swear words from the airwaves. Republican Rep. Doug Ose said he was amazed when the Federal Communications Commission refused to take action against television stations that showed the U2 frontman using an expletive at the Golden Globe Awards last January. The FCC's enforcement bureau said in October that Bono's comment was an adjective or...

http://www.dfw.com/mld/startelegram/news/state/7254764.htm Posted on Thu, Nov. 13, 2003 Court rules Ten Commandments can stay at CapitolAssociated Press AUSTIN - The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed the state's position that the placement of the Ten Commandments monument on the Capitol grounds is not an unconstitutional attempt to establish state-sponsored religion.Thomas Van Orden, a homeless man living in Austin, had sued to have the monument removed, calling it an endorsement of Judeo-Christian beliefs by the state government.The state countered that the 6-foot tall red granite monument is more historical than religious, with key segments of law founded on the moral...

Oklahoma Congressman turned Republican gubernatorial nominee Steve Largent blurted out an obscenity during a taped television interview that aired Sunday night, referring to an interviewer's questions as "bull---t." The incident occurred when KOKH-TV anchorman Andrew Speno questioned the one-time football star about his whereabouts on Sept. 11, 2001. Largent was hunting in Idaho at the time and didn't learn of the attacks until two days afterwards. However, while he was in the woods, his staff released a statement with Largent's reaction even though they hadn't been in touch with him. Speno also pressed the former congressman on where he was...

In Praise of Vulgarity How commercial culture liberates Islam -- and the West By Charles Paul Freund Who will ever forget the strangeness of the first images out of post-Taliban Afghanistan, when the streets ran with beards? As one city after another was abandoned by Taliban soldiers, crowds of happy men lined up to get their first legal shave in years, and barbers enjoyed the busiest days of their lives. Only a few months earlier, in January 2001, dozens of barbers in the capital city of Kabul had been rounded up by the Taliban’s hair-and-beard cops (the Ministry for...