Freedom's Curse

In the article "Freedom's Curse" the author talks about a federal courts ruling of explicit words being used in broadcast television. The ruling was that since the words were not used to describe indecent acts, therefore there was no punishment handed out to the people who used these explicit words. After reading this article I was curious how often you can hear an indecent word on broadcast television. I found an article entitled, "TALKING A "BLUE" STREAK: CONTEXT AND OFFENSIVE LANGUAGE IN PRIME TIME NETWORK TELEVISION PROGRAMS." This article was published in "Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly ." In this article the author discussed that during the hours of 9pm-10pm (primetime) on 7 monitored broadcasting networks there were more offensive words used in shows than any other programming time slot. This study also showed that the majority of offensive words were used in a non-comedic setting also most of the offensive material was presented by a main character in important plot points in the show.