Offensive Language

marie_85

I'm currently working on a college project regarding coarse language in the media and was wondering about people's opinions regarding this. Do you think that there is too much bad language on television (and radio) at the moment, and should the BCI impose stricter guidelines?

Karl Hungus

marie_85 wrote:

I'm currently working on a college project regarding coarse language in the media and was wondering about people's opinions regarding this. Do you think that there is too much bad language on television (and radio) at the moment, and should the BCI impose stricter guidelines?

That depends on what exactly the enforcement stricter guidelines would hope accomplish?

If it's an "Oh, think of the children" argument, then the reality of the situation is that by the time you're in national school, your vocabulary of expletives would far outweigh that of a Tarantino film. The occaisional lude language you might hear on television pales in comparison to what you'd hear on the school yard.

If it's an argument of individual people being offended by the language, then they can simply pick and choose their programming at will. There's a lot of channels out there, and nobody's forcing you to watch South Park.

Sangre

Bad language is becoming very lax post watershed. Racial expletives are the taboos on tv now (complete opposite of 70s)

Mossy Monk

the more the merrier. makes tv more realistic in fairness

byte

Don't think there are too much expletives on TV.

Besides, if people don't like expletives on movies aired on TV, just watch the versions aired by the BBC or ITV, which dub out a lot of language (at least they used to). Thankfully, when RTE show films they show them usually "as is" which is the way I prefer it. Maybe broadcasting laws are more relaxed here in Ireland than in the UK.

Larry David

Sangre wrote:

Bad language is becoming very lax post watershed.

It's allowed to be lax after the watershed - that's the whole nature of the 9pm watershed!

by the time you're in national school, your vocabulary of expletives would far outweigh that of a Tarantino film.

That's a stupid generalisation about primary schools, and wouldn't fly with most parents as a valid excuse to allow more expletives on TV.

tvnutz

As long as they are post water shed I don't see a problem. If you start imposing stricter guidelines you could eventually end up like American where the FCC is like a Hitler type media control organisation and you get fined for saying $hit at 11pm on a major network.

NUTLEY BOY

In context it is fine.

It is not fine where it is used as a form of all purpose lingo for the inarticulate who are otherwise incapable of stringing a sentence together.

Mind you it might liven up Dail Eireann if they could use it there as they are only a shower of - oops can't say tossers........:)

Karl Hungus

Larry David wrote:

That's a stupid generalisation about primary schools, and wouldn't fly with most parents as a valid excuse to allow more expletives on TV.

Allow more expletives? Who's talking about allowing more? This thread is about the censorship of such objectionable language, which means allowing less. Just so you know.

Oh, and if you could actually give some reasons behind why it's a stupid generalisation, rather than just stating it boldly as fact, that'd be just great.

Mossy Monk

Larry David wrote:

That's a stupid generalisation about primary schools, and wouldn't fly with most parents as a valid excuse to allow more expletives on TV.

if the parents are against their children hearing bad language then why dont they try doing some parenting. turn off the tv

Sangre

Larry David wrote:

It's allowed to be lax after the watershed - that's the whole nature of the 9pm watershed!



That's a stupid generalisation about primary schools, and wouldn't fly with most parents as a valid excuse to allow more expletives on TV.

Yes, but you didn't hear words like cúnt, motherfúcker, cóck sucking piece of shít at 9.30pm on rte2 20 years agp.