NBC apologizes for Jane Fonda using C-word on prime-time

[Gilliver's Travels]

She used the word once - and in context - when discussing "The Vagina Monologues" on NBC's Today programme... And the switchboards obligingly went to meltdown. Moral outrage, shock-horror on all channels.

This on the same day that Americans of all ages are treated to another prime-time droolfest - live and uncut, naturally - on yet another mass shooting of kids...

Only in America. Or is it?


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/02/14/nbc-apologizes-for-jane-f_n_86686.html

 

[Nibble]

Personally I don't think it is acceptable to use the C word on primetime telly.

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

Luckily for her she didn't say James Blunt - otherwise her TV appearances would have totally dried up.

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

Personally I don't think it is acceptable to use the C word on primetime telly.

Chelsea ?

 

[NMH]

Hmm. She the spokeswoman for the sixties beat generation, bringing us uptodate with some modern viewing.

That will shock America more than a child with its' arms blown off, where that's for life - and her word was a half-second on television.
But does it say anything? Do the public need or want bad language at the drop of a chat?
If she had said "George Bush is a C**T", then it wouldn't have been a word wasted.

 

[NMH]

Chelsea ?

crystal

 

[Gilliver's Travels]

Hmm. She the spokeswoman for the sixties beat generation, bringing us uptodate with some modern viewing.

That will shock America more than a child with its' arms blown off, where that's for life - and her word was a half-second on television.
But does it say anything? Do the public need or want bad language at the drop of a chat?
If she had said "George Bush is a C**T", then it wouldn't have been a word wasted.

True. But this time, it wasn't bad language. She wasn't swearing, merely quoting the title of a similar production. The clip makes it clear. The point of the Vagina Monologues was to reclaim a taboo word. The point of this post:

One use in context of C-word on TV= Americans shocked, protests all round. NBC apologises profusely, risks $200million fine.

Mass murders on TV= acceptable viewing, rolling live coverage on all channels, no complaints.

 

[Dandyman]

True. But this time, it wasn't bad language. She wasn't swearing, merely quoting the title of a similar production. The clip makes it clear. The point of the Vagina Monologues was to reclaim a taboo word. The point of this post:

One use in context of C-word on TV= Americans shocked, protests all round. NBC apologises profusely, risks $200million fine.

Mass murders on TV= acceptable viewing, rolling live coverage on all channels, no complaints.

Or even the President of the United States condoning kidnapping, false imprisonment and torture and no outrage....