Over the years we as American citizens have grown particularly accustomed to having public media and entertainment censored significantly. Sure, there are your everyday protesters that just need to be mad about something, but for the most part we all pretty much just live with having the 'F-bomb' replaced with bleeps. Who's responsible for those protesters' problem of the week, you ask? The FCC, or The Federal Communications Commission, they are responsible for giving liberal protesters something to complain about since Bush is out of office, and deciding what gets bleeped, cut or dubbed out of radio, television, wire, satellite and cable.
I read in a recent blog post (in MediaMatters), how Bush's FCC was trying to rewrite the books on whats considered profane and indecent. Nothing was changed as far as 'redefining' indecency goes and the 'F-word' remained profane in any context, thanks to the Court of Appeals, but several conservative politicians fought for it to be changed even though it was deemed unconstitutional.
I think this would be a good issue to talk about because we all are effected by the FCC's determination to protect our delicate naive minds from the harm of "bad" words and images on radio and television. In this day in age we rarely rely on public television for entertainment, we have more choices in what we watch and listen to, and we dont have to be looking for these choices either. I dont think there should have been a big deal made out if Bono using the word, "fucking," in exclamation at a live broadcasted event. You hear about this politicians do that are worse and dirtier than that an the Bush's FCC never makes a big deal about that. There are medical shows that get broadcasted that make more people uncomfortable than the f-word being shouted in exclamation.
