What's the Big Freakin' Deal?

The article “Offensive Language in Prime-Time Television: Four Years after Television Age and Content Ratings”, found on BNET, is relative to the article required to read for class, which was “Freedom’s Curse” written in The Atlantic. In “Freedom’s Curse”, Psychologist Steven Pinker discusses how some curse words are taken by some to be “better” than other curse words and the extent to which the government has gone to make sure that foul language has been edited out of television shows at times when children are watching it. Pinker goes on to say in this article that most people will take fucking as a word that has a heavier and deeper meaning than freakin’ by taking fucking to have sexual connotation. George Carlin did a show that talked about the seven bad words that should not be said on television not to excite people by cursing almost every other word, but to show that the government should not be able to regulate what is said on TV. In “Offensive Language in Primetime Television”, it is discussed how the usage of curse words has increased a significant amount over the years and how much different the government thinks about profanity on television nowadays. For those that were younger when cursing on television was a terrible act, they now watch our TV shows and see what people can get away with and how little editing is taking place to cover up foul words. The article also goes on to agree that there are some curse words that are accepted more than other curse words are.
The two articles support one another in the sense that they both discuss the same subject and have the same views on foul language on television. Both articles pretty much state that curse words should not be taken as negative unless they are truly meant to be negative, such as the fucking example mentioned before. Personally, I think that the government should regulate what is said during the times when children are most likely to be watching television. I think that is reasonable and understandable and I can see where parents are coming from when they complain about this. I sure wouldn’t want my children to walk around saying words like that around my house or anywhere.