Tuesday, November 16, 2010

So Happy It's Thursday

There was an article in the Journal the other day that quoted a source who mentioned something about "all this sh*t", except it wasn't as cleverly censored as I have it here.  This caught Kathryn and I off guard - is it okay to print that now?  I know that newspapers are written in a grade 3 - 8 level (depending on what source you believe) - and I guess, to most grade 8 kids, that's just about the only language they know... (but I digress).

Then we reflected that Strombo and guests quite often use the word, un-bleeped on his show.  Of course, it runs at 11 pm, which is waaay past the watershed.  (P.S. good on Canada for giving us an extra hour of nudity and coarse language a day over the US).

That night, we watched Being Erica, another Canadian TV show (which, by the way, is pretty good for CanCon, except the episodes where they drive in their new Ford Fiestas right before cutting to a commercial for the car).  They used the word twice (!) in one episode. I tried to find some decision by the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council indicating that you're now allowed to broadcast / print the word - but couldn't find much.

Not that I'm really complaining - we watch a lot of HBO shows, where really, anything goes.  Also, do you remember when Dr. Greene died on ER, and how momentous it was that he swore during that episode?  Oh memory lane...

Maybe the Canadian media producers are taking Lindsay Blackett's quote about Canadian TV being sh*t out of context.

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