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[hellziggy]

Watching Jimmy Kimmel and one of his guests was the guy that Richard Simmons slapped in the Phoenix airport. Guy says that he said to Simmons "I can't believe you fucking slapped me" As opposed to saying "I can't believe you **beeeep** slapped me. It took a second to register. The censors missed a beep! Although part of me wonders if they did it on purpose for the Kimmel show to get slapped with a fine. It wasn't like the fuck came out of the blue. They'd just beeped the guy's previous sentences, so they know that he was a swearing type of guy.

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[hellbob.livejournal.com]

*AHEM* Back on topic: I don't think it's anything that sinister. In the case of an FCC investigation, ABC would most likely get fined, they would force JK's writers/publicist to issue a public retraction/apology and the censors would be sacked. The reason that Howard and that other DJ were responded to with such heavy-handedness is that they are regarded as "loose cannons" by the powers that be since they aren't subject to any sort of censorship or even arbitrary "age-appropriate programming hours" that the TV companies have imposed on themselves. Were "shock jocks" to self-edit or broadcast at "adult-content appropriate" times, they would have little trouble with any regulatory agency. Conversely, they would get a fraction of the attention they do now and there would be little interest in listening to their bleep-heavy content. Go figure.

[hellziggy.livejournal.com]

Back on topic? You don't like discussing my new icon?