Swearing on Boston Public

Well, yeah, censorship had actually decreased over time. I remember (when I got into the show, not because I was actually alive during the time) that 21 jump street was mentioned as the first show to say ass (or bitch, can't remember which one, though the show said both) on cable -- on FOX. That was in 1987. So I assume cable began to make certain words acceptable - ass, bitch, dick, tits, even the n word evidently. (I have been shocked - like you - while watching reruns of other shows at the freedom they were given though.)

But then there was that bit with justin timberlake and janet at the halftime show and it seemed like the media clammed up. Sex was not acceptable anymore. And the media's constantly blamed for influencing our children (not mine, I don't have kids) into doing corrupt things, for tainting their minds. So language was eventually recensored. Not violence though. I actually think the violence has gotten worse. The things they're aloud to show now is pretty amazing. The best example for this is Supernatural - on the CW. They've had amazingly graphic death scenes. Their last halloween episode, had this dude end up swallowing several razor blades while eating candy (it was a witch though, so he didn't actually chomp into razor blade filled candy. That would have been awful). But there's this scene where he reaches into his mouth and yanks out this razor blade that had gotten wedged into the roof of his mouth. But the camera actually zoomed back and showed the inside of his mouth and the protruding razor blade, and then his hand coming in to snatch it and the spurting blood.

But now the radio is super censoring everything. Words that had never been cuss words before, like gun. wtf. I think in our modern world, everybodys so terrified, so they sort of guard themselves against it. It's ridiculous of course, but given time it'd blow over until the next celebrity screws up.



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