1 of 1- Chrisphen
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Shocking foul language on the state broadcaster
Such filthy terms being forced down our throats on the public airwaves.
"Enshittification"
After all for-profit media has done to help us and our mothers. This flagrant violation of community standards cannot stand.
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I'm hoping this is just tongue-in-cheek criticism. I'm no fan of the CBC, but unlike other Canadian networks, they have a much more casual attitude to foul language, and if you watch some of their shows - especially imports which they frequently run - you'll hear much worse than this.
"Plan B," a CBC-English show, as an example, is filled with four-letter words.
And don't forget The Corp. is the network that brought the world "Schitt's Creek," which became a cause celebre and went out over U.S. airwaves repeatedly when it won so many Emmy Awards a few years ago.
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I remember when the Degrassi movie used the f-word on primetime CBC something like 30 years ago.
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CHCH is not afraid to run movies in prime time with foul language. I watched Bridesmaids last year on CHCH and it was filled with profanity. Nothing was edited visually or for language.
CTV lets the bad language go after 11pm. CTV2 has been showing The Sopranos unedited for a few months now on the weekends. But the main network did air the Sopranos in prime time back in 2001 intact with the violence and swearing. CTV also has a couple of youth oriented reality shows running late night on weekends with some nudity and a lot of bad words.
Not familiar with either City or Global scheduling anything with much swearing or nudity that I have noticed. CBC is weird, sometimes they edit out the swearing, other times they don't. In many ways the Canadian OTA stations were more liberal with programming back 30 and even 50 years ago.
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I always thought it was pretty clever of Mike Stafford to use the word "shite" on his show because I think "shit" was either banned and/or considered inappropriate.
Nothing beats the excellent and hilarious dubbing of Samuel L. Jackson's profanity on the movie Snakes On A Plane.
When we were kids growing up in Quebec we absolutely embraced learning certain parts of the French language, to be more specific, swearing in French, it's incredibly satisfying.
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betaylored wrote:
Nothing beats the excellent and hilarious dubbing of Samuel L. Jackson's profanity on the movie Snakes On A Plane.
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My missive is purely tongue-in-cheek, though I was surprised to hear the term used in a news report (and correctly credited to Cory Doctorow).
Censorship can stimulate creativity. The safe-for-TV edit of 'The Big Lebowski' is another great example.
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Tessa Campanelli? You were f'ing Tessa Campanelli? CLASSIC!!!!!
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Tessa Campanelli? You were f'ing Tessa Campanelli? CLASSIC!!!!!
I was so shocked when Caitlin said that!
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Nothing beats the excellent and hilarious dubbing of Samuel L. Jackson's profanity on the movie Snakes On A Plane.
Brilliant! 😁