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http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/2007/05/14/2007-05-14_public_discourse_coarsening_-2.html
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/2007/05/14/2007-05-14_embattled_oa_offer_eerily_clean_show.html
Yeah, I'am tired of this topic aswell, but there is some good perspectives expressed in these two pieces.
The most interesting is the first column, the author Divid Hinckley draws some correlation with media and a cruder society however he gets in these little attempts at exculpation:
It's not that these words were invented in, say, those notoriously permissive 1960s. The ancient Greeks and Romans knew their way around a curse word. But in recent years vulgarity has become a far more public presence, and that's the main reason it is also an increasing presence in the media.
Also;If anything, ironically, radio and TV are behind the curve for explicit expression.
The fact is that media leads public conduct and 'celebs" lead popular taste.
I could give atleast a dozen examples of this, we all could think of a phrase or attitude was popularized in a movie or TV show. Around early 1988, I started hearing some stagehands that were on a crew of mine using the slang d.....bag to describe women. I'd never heard this one before, I asked around and they had all heard it from Howard Stern. Within a year it was commonplace in certain circles.
I know that some think it's unfair the we are presently singling-out media figures, but they do have considerable influence and bear responsibliity for both good and bad trends.
It's the entertainment industry like any other, it will take the easy and cheap way to profits, if it can get away with it. It's good to let them know that not just anything goes.
Lino
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/2007/05/14/2007-05-14_embattled_oa_offer_eerily_clean_show.html
Yeah, I'am tired of this topic aswell, but there is some good perspectives expressed in these two pieces.
The most interesting is the first column, the author Divid Hinckley draws some correlation with media and a cruder society however he gets in these little attempts at exculpation:
It's not that these words were invented in, say, those notoriously permissive 1960s. The ancient Greeks and Romans knew their way around a curse word. But in recent years vulgarity has become a far more public presence, and that's the main reason it is also an increasing presence in the media.
Also;If anything, ironically, radio and TV are behind the curve for explicit expression.
The fact is that media leads public conduct and 'celebs" lead popular taste.
I could give atleast a dozen examples of this, we all could think of a phrase or attitude was popularized in a movie or TV show. Around early 1988, I started hearing some stagehands that were on a crew of mine using the slang d.....bag to describe women. I'd never heard this one before, I asked around and they had all heard it from Howard Stern. Within a year it was commonplace in certain circles.
I know that some think it's unfair the we are presently singling-out media figures, but they do have considerable influence and bear responsibliity for both good and bad trends.
It's the entertainment industry like any other, it will take the easy and cheap way to profits, if it can get away with it. It's good to let them know that not just anything goes.
Lino