"The role of bleeps and warnings in viewers' perceptions of on-air cursing"

The article "Freedom Curse" discusses how the FCC has taken specific words out of cable TV during hours in which children are most likely to be watching. The FCC chose these words believing that they portray an inappropriate meaning or imply sexual context. Critics of the FCC argue that this is violating the networks first amendment and that the people should censor themselves instead of relying on an agency to censor what is coming into their home. I agree I believe that if you don't want to hear curse words than you should program your TV not to show those shows. The TV rating system is in place so people can tell what kind of content is in a particular show. The article, "The role of bleeps and warnings in viewers' perceptions of on-air cursing" discusses the effects of bleeping out words deemed inappropriate. The findings were very interesting. Researches found that when a network bleeped out certain words the viewers began to notice the frequency of inappropriate language more so than if the words were not bleeped out. Surveys also showed that viewers thought shows to be more offensive when the words were bleeped out and less realistic. When the words were not bleeped out viewers thought the show to be more realistic and few even noticed the frequency of inappropriate language. The article can be found on the EBSCOhost database.