FCC APPROVES USE OF THE "F" WORD ON TV AND RADIO!

American Family Association** ^ | Donald E. Wildmon

[webber]

FCC APPROVES USE OF THE "F" WORD ON TV AND RADIO!

The Federal Communications Commission has approved the use of the "F" word for use on any TV show or radio program, ANYTIME DAY OR NIGHT!

The FCC said the word can be used whenever desired except in sexual situations!

>>That means that real soon you will be watching a sit-com on TV, or news, or any drama or movie-ANY PROGRAM-and it*s ok! Hollywood is rejoicing!

>>Soon, when you are driving your kids to school you will be listening to a song which makes extensive use of the word.

>>Shock jocks such as Howard Stern are now free to use any language, no matter how vile and repugnant, on their radio shows. And use it they will.

>>No longer will movies shown on TV have to be edited because of language.

WE MUST ACT NOW TO STOP THIS!

Send your letter to your Congressman, Senators and members of the FCC.

Let them know that you want this stopped-NOW!

Please send your letter now. And please forward this letter to your email list asking them to get involved.

If it isn*t stopped now, in a few months verbal pornography will rule the airways!

Please act today. Help us get 1,000,000 email letters to members of Congress, Senators and FCC Commissioners.

Thanks for getting involved!

Donald E. Wildmon
Founder and Chairman
American Family Association

[Bronco_Buster_FweetHyagh]

So turn off your tv.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Ever increasing stimulation in order to maintain the same feeling of aliveness.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

This is bullshit!

My thoughts exactly. We are to take the word of Rev. Wildmon on this one?

I see nothing on his website to substantiate his claim. If someone posted that kind of statement on this website, they'd be asked to prove it.

[King Prout]

some of us believe the form of decency is a ludicrous pose unless accompanied by the substance of decency.
we also believe that the substance of decency is unsullied by a lack of the form of decency.

[Larry Lucido]

Am I missing something here?


Who Lyrics - Who Are You

(Peter Townshend)
Who are you?
Who, who, who, who?
Who are you?
Who, who, who, who?
Who are you?
Who, who, who, who?
Who are you?
Who, who, who, who?
I woke up in a Soho doorway
A policeman knew my name
He said "You can go sleep at home tonight
If you can get up and walk away"
I staggered back to the underground
And the breeze blew back my hair
I remember throwin' punches around
And preachin' from my chair
chorus:
Well, who are you? (Who are you? Who, who, who, who?)
I really wanna know (Who are you? Who, who, who, who?)
Tell me, who are you? (Who are you? Who, who, who, who?)
'Cause I really wanna know (Who are you? Who, who, who, who?)
I took the tube back out of town
Back to the Rollin' Pin
I felt a little like a dying clown
With a streak of Rin Tin Tin
I stretched back and I hiccupped
And looked back on my busy day
Eleven hours in the Tin Pan
God, there's got to be another way
Who are you?
Ooh wa ooh wa ooh wa ooh wa ...
Who are you?
Who, who, who, who?
Who are you?
Who, who, who, who?
Who are you?
Who, who, who, who?
Who are you?
Who, who, who, who?
(chorus)
I know there's a place you walked
Where love falls from the trees
My heart is like a broken cup
I only feel right on my knees
I spit out like a sewer hole
Yet still recieve your kiss
How can I measure up to anyone now
After such a love as this?
(chorus)

[Sabertooth]

Good. So now radio and TV will comport to my vocabulary,
and we won't have to pretend that its a "Leave it to Beaver" world.

Yeah, we've all been eagerly awaiting the day when a public resource,
utilized by children, would comport to your vocabulary.

[Neenah]

Claim: The FCC has approved the use of the "f-word" on any TV show or radio program.

The FCC ruled that a use of the word "fucking" during a Golden Globes broadcast did not violate FCC obscenity standards: True.

The FCC approved a general use of the "f-word" in any TV show or radio program: False.

Example: [Collected on the Internet, 2003]

FCC APPROVES USE OF THE "F" WORD ON TV AND RADIO! IMMEDIATE ACTION NEEDED NOW!

The Federal Communications Commission has approved the use of the "F" word for use on any TV show or radio program, ANYTIME DAY OR NIGHT!

The FCC said the word can be used whenever desired except in sexual situations!

That means that real soon you will be watching a sit-com on TV, or news, or any drama or movie - ANY PROGRAM - and it's ok! Hollywood is rejoicing!

Soon, when you are driving your kids to school you will be listening to a song which makes extensive use of the word.

Shock jocks such as Howard Stern are now free to use any language, no matter how vile and repugnant, on their radio shows. And use it they will.

No longer will movies shown on TV have to be edited because of language.

WE MUST ACT NOW TO STOP THIS!

Send your letter to your Congressman, Senators and members of the FCC. Let them know that you want this stopped - NOW!

Please send you letter now. And please forward this letter to your email list asking them to get involved.

If it isn’t stopped now, in a few months verbal pornography will rule the airways!

Please act today. Help us get 1,000,000 email letters to members of Congress, Senators and FCC Commissioners.

Thanks for getting involved!

Donald E. Wildmon, Founder and Chairman American Family Association

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Origins: The item above is an "Action Alert" issued by the American Family Association (AFA), an organization headed by the Rev. Donald Wildmon which seeks to protect and preserve "family values" in the entertainment media. (Rev. Wildmon and the AFA have drawn much criticism from opponents of censorship.) The issue this alert covers can't be described as simply "true" or "false" — as with many such items there's a kernel of truth here, but it's one which has been exaggerated for maximum political effect.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has not "approved the use of the 'F' word for use on any TV show or radio program at any time" nor has it issued a ruling making broadcasters "free to use any language, no matter how vile and repugnant." This issue arose as a result of the annual Golden Globe Awards ceremony held in January 2003, during which singer Bono of the band U2 uttered the phrase "this is really, really, fucking brilliant" (also reported as "this is fucking great"). Bono's comment was aired, intact, by various television stations, prompting about 200 complaints to the FCC that those TV stations had violated the FCC's restrictions on obscene broadcasts by carrying that portion of the awards ceremony.

Several months later, in October 2003, the FCC's Enforcement Bureau issued a response to those complaints in which it maintained that broadcasts of Bono's words had not violated the FCC's prohibition of indecent program content because the word "fucking" was a "fleeting and isolated" remark used "as an adjective or expletive to emphasize an exclamation" and not "to describe or depict sexual and excretory organs and activities":

Indecency findings involve at least two fundamental determinations. First, the material alleged to be indecent must fall within the subject matter scope of our indecency definition — that is, the material must describe sexual or excretory organs or activities . . . Second, the broadcast must be patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards for the broadcast medium.

As a threshold matter, the material aired during the "Golden Globe Awards" program does not describe or depict sexual and excretory activities and organs. The word "fucking" may be crude and offensive, but, in the context presented here, did not describe sexual and excretory organs and activities. Rather, the performer used the word "fucking" as an adjective or expletive to emphasize an exclamation. Indeed, in similar circumstances, we have found that offensive language used as an insult rather than as a description of sexual or excretory activity or organs is not within the scope of the Commission's prohibition of indecent program content.

Moreover, we have previously found that fleeting and isolated remarks of this nature do not warrant Commission action. Thus, because the complained-of material does not fall within the scope of the Commission's indecency prohibition, we reject the claims that this program content is indecent . . . This statement falls far short of supporting the claim that the FCC has now approved the "f-word" to be used at any time, in any context, in radio and TV programming — it addressed one specific context in which the word was allowed (a "fleeting and isolated" remark used as "an adjective or expletive to emphasize an exclamation") while reiterating that certain other uses of the "f-word" (describing or depicting "sexual activities") were still not permissible under current FCC regulations. The FCC maintains that this is not a "relaxation" of their standards but rather a consistent application of existing rules, while groups such as the AFA maintain that the FCC's statement represents an increasingly permissive standard regarding broadcast media usage of words traditionally labelled as "obscenities" which cannot be dismissed out of hand as invalid, especially since one of the benchmarks used is "contemporary community standards." (That is, the more one hears certain language used on radio and television, the more it becomes part of "contemporary community standards" — is television and radio usage the chicken laying the egg which hatches "community standards," or is it the other way around?)

As always, the times they are a-changin', and the battle continues between the supporters of preservation and the forces of change

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[b4its2late]

So much for the 7 words.....

[GeekDejure]

F#C#ING COMMUNIST CONSPIRACY APPROVES USE OF THE "F" WORD ON TV AND RADIO!

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[Neenah]

My above post was suppose to be addressed to "All". My apologies to chance33_98.

[FITZ]

So turn off your tv.

That's the whole problem --- most of us already have --- and the idiots in the entertainment industry think this is the way to get us back. Fools --- their poor quality of programming isn't going to be improved by adding the f word into them.

[Joe Hadenuf]

Good. So now radio and TV will comport to my vocabulary, and we won't have to pretend that its a "Leave it to Beaver" world.

No to worry Palpatine, that America is mostly gone, diluted, perverted, corrupted, over-run, and trashed.

[Jorge]

"Seriously though; What's the big deal. It's just a word."

So is the Abortion, Murder, Nigger, Jap, Kike, Chink, Splib, Wop, Jihad, Honky, Wetback, Gook, holocaust.

But for those whose minds are in the gutter, the only "intolerable" words are Christian, Ten Commandments, righteousness, holiness, absolutes, pro-life, JESUS, God Almighty, Holy Bible.

Just a word?
Jesus said what comes out of the mouth defiles a man. It shows what's in a man's heart.

Unfortunately we live in a society that has growing tolerance for vulgarity and depravity...but little tolerance for the Word of God.

[aSkeptic]

its about fucking time!

[AmishDude]

I think you should change the name of your ping list, given the subject of this thread.

[joesnuffy]

fornication (for) unlawfull carnal knowledge while not one of the best words for kids to hear or use..its also an angry word..that tends to spread anger

They have been using the Lord Jesus Christ's name as a curse word on TV for years...
where's the objection to that..?

Deviancy has already been not only dumbed down...its been institutionalized...

[Sabertooth]

So what? It makes a good excuse to turn off the TV. It's TV. No one has to turn on the TV. I usually watch sports events and that's about it besides an occasional show or movie here and there.

There are a lot more important troubles than the f-bomb on TV or radio. The economy. The number of abortions. Gun grabbers. That mf'er George Soros. The Democraps. Bin Laden's people.

The strip-mining of all standards and morality from our culture becomes a more apparent problem after you have kids. Then there is a real-world awakening to the reality that double standards are usually better than no standards at all.

[FITZ]

Good. So now radio and TV will comport to my vocabulary, and we won't have to pretend that its a "Leave it to Beaver" world.

So you actually watch television? I really don't know too many people who do. Maybe you'll watch even more with the f word going into all your shows.

[chance33_98]

No problem ;)

[FITZ]

Even my kids won't watch television --- they'll turn it on, change the channel a few times, but they very quickly become bored and walk off --- of course they forget to turn it off --- and I can't imagine hearing the f word is going to make a single show they have on now at all more interesting.