Dear Media: Ur Doin it wrong

[yendi]

For god's sake, if you're going to cover the George Carlin story, do it right.

Every fucking media outlet mentions the existence of the 7 Words You Can't Say on TV.

None of them are saying what they are.

If these words have ever been news, today's the day. Even Kevin Martin and his band of jackbooted idiots at the FCC can't reasonably argue otherwise (not that they've ever reasonably done anything). Last I checked, in fact, the FCC doesn't regulate cable or the print media, so CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, and others should have no problem at all.

So, reporters, remember the following words:

Shit. Piss. Fuck. Cunt. Cocksucker. Motherfucker. Tits.

Seven motherfucking words. Say 'em until Al Swearengen blushes. It's not quite what George would have wanted (I think that would be, "to not be dead"), but it's a start.

Comments

[kaine-maxwell.livejournal.com]

Now try using all Seven Words in the same sentence.

I was shocked when I heard the news before I went to bed last night...

[reannon.livejournal.com]

Sorry, the FCC is still going to fine them even if it's George Carlin's obituary, and they can get their franchises pulled if they wanted to make a big stink about it. And we newspapers would get hundreds of cancelled subscriptions and screaming letters to the editor if we put those words in. Alas, Carlin's message about the words you can't say never quite permeated beyond our generation.

[pixelfish.livejournal.com]

It permeated. Just not to everyone, sadly.

[reannon.livejournal.com]

That's true - you can now say "piss," or so the hard-bitten cop shows think.

[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

Thank you, though maybe only the blogosphere can truly get away with that right now.

And it doesn't hurt to remember the addendum: fart, turd and twat. Or the dozens-of-terms-long "expanded" list he did in the 80s ("It's a little longer now than it was before," Carlin said as he unrolled a scroll). "Yodeling in the gully" for the win!

[allah-sulu.livejournal.com]

[unwilly.livejournal.com]

Yep, the media are still a bunch of cocksukers.

FARK even left the swear filter on. Those fuckers.

[liamstliam.livejournal.com]

Tits, it's such a friendly sounding word.

Sounds like a nickname.

[mendoza.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a snack!