There have always been political scandals or celebrity scandals however, with the age of nano-second communication, precious little trash talk gets cleaned up......
Did it start with a timid Supreme Court caving to Madalyn Murray O’Hair's God-less demands that prayer be taken out of schools? Or With an American president doing scandalous much publicized things with an intern causing heretofore very private sexual acts, to go public. I am sure Rap Music with it's dirty lyrics has something to do with the lack of dignity or The Rev. Wright and his profane condemnation of America.
All had something to do with the manner-less, uneducated students and teachers and the parents who raise their children in front of a television screen.
I miss that kinder and more gentle America.
It vanished when Bush beat the Messiah Algore...