morality on TV

[cavan]

Is there anyone out there who feels the same as I do about the decline in standards on TV and in the media. I started to watch a programme last night on Ch4 about road rage and couldn't believe the foul language used by one of the characters. He wasn't even in a stressful situation when he started to eff and blind. WHY?. E ven in a stressful situation it is totally unacceptable to show this on our screens. Is there still a body out there who deals with this instead of having to contact the TV company.

[LoftyLottie]

Unfortunately, foul language has become commonplace. I hate it myself but unless it is directed at me personally or then I have learned to live with it. What was considered dreadful when I was child is to the modern child acceptable and the norm. Trouble is if you make too much fuss and censor things then it brings it to the attention of those most vulnerable (i.e. children)

TV just reflects real life I'm afraid. I don't think it's nice, but I don't think you can censor it. I just switch it off if it offends me.

[~spaced~]

I quite enjoyed the programme. Why mask reality? If you dont like it, dont watch it. Pure and simple.

[Oneeyedvic]

Erm, it's a documentaryabout road rage - it is hardly going to have no swearing in it.

[weggiewabbit]

I watched that, and I think they picked their subjects carefully, looking for some ***** who have a serious personality disorder.

[weggiewabbit]

I've been censored - never seen that before!

[weggiewabbit]

stawt then?

[Buenchico]

LIke Spaced, I don't believe in masking reality. (In my opinion the Diana road crash pictures should have been on the front page of every newspaper and on every TV screen. Similarly, we should be shown the full horrors of war in news reports, including dead bodies, beheadings and people dying in agony. Equally, I have no problem with the portrayal of sex acts, both 'natural' and 'unnatural', between consenting adults).

I don't particularly like so-called 'foul language' but I don't have any great problem with documentaries using unedited content containing it.

However, I also believe that AB should be a source of accurate information, so here's the answer to your question:

Since 2003, the duties and powers of the former Broadcasting Complaints' Commission have been absorbed into those of the Office of Communications (OfCom). They receive, and respond to, complaints about individual television programmes, as well as more general issues. Complaints can be registered online, here:
http://www.ofcom.org.uk/complain/progs/

Chris

[imhotep]

I agree with LoftyLottie!
I work in a place where I hear the F word being spoken every single day.I very rarely use the word,probably only when I get really angry by something.Even then,I might not say it.A few of my colleagues say it while they talk normally to one another.
The F word certainly is becoming commonplace nowadays! It's shocking when you hear young children using foul language.

[ELVIS68]

Swearing is part of the English language, if someone decides to use "colourful" language then so be it.

Why do people get offended by it?

Ok ...if someone calls you a C**t, fair enough, but the odd fook and bollox in a conversation never hurts anyone

[cavan]

After seeing most of the answers I have to admit that decadence and immorality rule, and most people accept that. I will just go back in my dark corner and accept that I'm different. Oh by the way and thank God I am different.

[LoftyLottie]

And I thank God (well I would if I believed in God) that I can accept that my standards may not be right and that others may have different views to me. I am my own person, but I also allow others to have theirs without assuming I am right. I do not believe that decadence and immorality rule, but I do believe that we can't censor real life and accept the fact that decadence and immorality exists and wearing a blinker to avoid it does no good whatsoever.

Profound language does not necessarily make a person decadent or immoral. Actions speak louder than words!