On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 10:40 PM, Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote:
> While these things make for entertaining bloopers, the idea that we don't > allow anchors to use grown up language for big people stuns me. We're in > 2013 and people on TV have to adhere to the standards of the 1940s. Is > there anybody who believes Anderson Cooper's or Brian Williams' first > words upon arriving at the site of the Boston bombing weren't "fucking > shit" or some variation of the words? I'm shocked people can use the word > pregnant and don't have to appear on screen in seperate beds. Fuck and shit > are commonly used words that everyone over the age of 9 has heard and/or > uttered. At what point do we drop the pretense that they are somehow dirty? You have a point, but it seems to me better suited to another thread (perhaps the one about David Ortiz). This guy was not making a human response to an unspeakable tragedy, he was unprofessional and unprepared for the pressure of the big spotlight on the anchor chair of the local affiliate in Bismarck. I don't think dude should be fired for saying fucking shit (though, as Doug pointed out, he probably should be fired for being apparently poorly suited to any job that requires speaking in public), but I don't think there is anything wrong with setting a standard for public discourse in which certain kinds of language are generally not appropriate. If those standards are broken occasionally, and in good faith, then it should be sufficient to say - okay, but don't do that again. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
