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NEWS ABOUT: profanity

profanity stories: 25 news summaries

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 Supremes to Weigh
 On-Air Swearing 

Fox battles the FCC in next big court case

Mar 17, 08 1:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Supreme Court might take up a gavel in one hand and a bar of soap in the other next term, when it considers a case challenging the FCC’s “fleeting utterances” standards, it announced today. The FCC is appealing a lower-court ruling—which arose when Cher dropped an... More »

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television • CBS • FCC • indecency • Janet Jackson • profanity • Fox • wardrobe malfunction • US Supreme Court • constitutionality • swearing

Fonda Swears She's Sorry
for Obscenity

Today show apologizes for on-air slip, decency watchdogs want delay

Feb 15, 08 6:37 AM CST
(Newser) - Today host Meredith Vieira got an unpleasant  shock yesterday when Jane Fonda let the C-word slip while discussing the Vagina Monologues, the New York Daily News reports. "It was a slip, and obviously she apologizes, and so do we," Vieira told viewers. Fonda's blooper came when she... More »

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Vagina Monologues • Meredith Vieira • Jane Fonda • profanity • obscenity • Parents Television Council • Today show

I Swear!
And More and More, in Public

Profanity has moved
beyond private discourse, experts say

Nov 27, 07 2:55 PM CST
(Newser) - Profanity seems to be more and more widespread, but linguists suggest people aren't actually swearing more—they're just swearing more publicly. The tide of athletes and musicians who pepper their language with choice four-letter words is meeting a surge of media avenues that aren't regulated by the government, resulting in... More »

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television • FCC • profanity • language • Parents Television Council • parental advisory

NYC May Ban the 'B-Word'

City council wants to nix 'bitch' from New Yorkers' vocab

Aug 7, 07 3:38 PM CDT
(Newser) - The "N-word" was the first to go, earlier this year, and now New York's city council wants to impose a citywide symbolic ban on another dirty word: bitch. The councilwoman who jump-started the initiative calls the slur "a vile attack on our womanhood," but plenty of New... More »

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New York City • censorship • sexism • profanity • language • bitch

Imus Will Sue CBS for
$40 Mil Left on Contract

Shock jock Won't Go Quietly

May 2, 07 5:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Don Imus is off the airwaves but not finished fighting: He's hired First Amendment attorney Martin Garbus to help him sue CBS. Sources tell Fortune that Imus's five-year, $50 million contract guaranteed him a warning before his routinely foul mouth got him fired; without it, he may be owed the... More »

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radio • CBS • FCC • Don Imus • lawsuit • profanity

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