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Why does the FCC persist in shooting itself in the foot? The more they ban, the more creative people will become in getting around that banned content, and the "dirtier" things will become.

Just listen to the Bob & Tom Show, which has had to "clean up" for the FCC. Anything can become a euphamism...

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Are you sure it isn't "crap"? Because I don't really remember ever hearing "shit" on TV and I'm pretty sure it would already be on the list.

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Not that I expected a reply, but I wrote to this guy ages ago, when he said something like, "sure, parents can monitor what their children watch, but why should they have to?" What a flaming idiot. Without personal responsibility, freedom will disappear. As an adult, I think I have the right to watch adult content on public airwaves. I'm guessing I'm not in the minority, either. Any word on what shows are being fined and for what?

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On the shield the say "shit" all the time.

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And I was hoping the word was "Bush"

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I seem to recall that Mark Harmon was the first person to say shit on a regular network broadcast show back in the Chicago Hope days. They made a huge deal of it at the time. Letterman even did a whole bit centered around it.

I am guessing Family Guy is going to get a spanking. Something tells me this guy didn't get the joke behind the FCC song.

The FCC should not be the morality police.

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Anthony Edwards also said it on "ER" once. Dr. Green fell in his bedroom as his brain tumor was starting to take its toll.

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Once Steven Bochco got the OK to use it, the word "Bullshit" seemed to be inserted into every episode of NYPD Blue for an entire season. The we all saw Janet Jackson's breast and the worst we ever heard from Sipowicz after that was "scumbag."

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"'sure, parents can monitor what their children watch, but why should they have to?' What a flaming idiot. Without personal responsibility, freedom will disappear. As an adult, I think I have the right to watch adult content on public airwaves."

Yeh, well, I'm sure he's not an idiot, but he is catoring to idiots like the one who posted a House comment admitting to making his daugher watch House with him http://www.tvsquad.com/2006/02/21/house-skin-deep/#comments

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They could be banning the word "poop" rather than "shit" or "crap".

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It's about time that these networks pay up for all the filth that is on tv these days.

I personally believe that profanity, vulgarity and other obscenities need to be completely eliminated from television. It's unnecessary and shows lack of intellect when you can't express yourself without being vulgar, or obscene.

Gone are the days when you one could turn on a tv show without having to worry about the content.

It's a sad state of affairs in TV history that we as Americans must have the FCC policing our airwaves, but if these networks are not going to stop vulgar and obsecene content from being shown, then I suppose the only alternative is to have the FCC play big brother.

Bottom line: The FCC is doing a great job by helping to impose stricter sanctions against these major TV networks and I applaud them for trying to restore some sense of decency back into the world.

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Jason, it's called "The Off Button" or "Cancel The Cable" or "Block The Channels" or "Get A V-Chip TV" or "Watch What Your Children Are Doing" or "Talk To Your Children About What They See In The Real World". To sum it up, it's about personal responsibility and free speech.

Lots of options other than "Let the government decide" -- seems to me we are allowing them to decide WAY too much these days just because people (parents mostly) are too lazy to do it themselves.

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