The F in FOX
According to the IMDb, FOX has apologized for showing a woman wearing a “F*** da Eagles” shirt during Saturday’s NFL playoff game between the Philadelphia Eagles and the New Orleans Saints.
After receiving complaints from every ticked off activist group that looks for this kind of thing, a spokesman for the network said the airing was “unintentional, inadvertent, and we apologize.”
After watching the footage, it is kind of hard to see how the cameraman could have in advertently shot the woman, in focus, perfectly centered and lit, without noticing the message in bright yellow letters on her black T-shirt, but I guess it could happen.
The fact that FOX has routinely taken drastic measures to push the decency envelope probably has nothing to do with this.
One could argue that it technically isn’t FOX’s fault. Anyone who has gone anywhere from Miller Park in Milwaukee to Great America in Gurnee, Ill., knows that you may not be let in if your outfit is deemed offensive by the teenage security guard tearing your ticket.
I’m sure the stadium where this game was played has a policy like that—an un-enforced policy, but a policy nonetheless.
And, as you can see if you click HERE, it goes by pretty quick.
I for one don’t care, again, because most of the slip-ups on television involving swearing are during sporting events where tempers flare and fans and players are focused on the task at hand, not if they’re on television—and everyone watching at home should just know by now that an s-word or an f-bomb come sailing into their home. Hence the magic of live television.
But I’m sure this will screw my television viewing somehow!
Thank you decency police for making this world a better place for children, and a sanitized wreck of blah for every adult.
After receiving complaints from every ticked off activist group that looks for this kind of thing, a spokesman for the network said the airing was “unintentional, inadvertent, and we apologize.”
After watching the footage, it is kind of hard to see how the cameraman could have in advertently shot the woman, in focus, perfectly centered and lit, without noticing the message in bright yellow letters on her black T-shirt, but I guess it could happen.
The fact that FOX has routinely taken drastic measures to push the decency envelope probably has nothing to do with this.
One could argue that it technically isn’t FOX’s fault. Anyone who has gone anywhere from Miller Park in Milwaukee to Great America in Gurnee, Ill., knows that you may not be let in if your outfit is deemed offensive by the teenage security guard tearing your ticket.
I’m sure the stadium where this game was played has a policy like that—an un-enforced policy, but a policy nonetheless.
And, as you can see if you click HERE, it goes by pretty quick.
I for one don’t care, again, because most of the slip-ups on television involving swearing are during sporting events where tempers flare and fans and players are focused on the task at hand, not if they’re on television—and everyone watching at home should just know by now that an s-word or an f-bomb come sailing into their home. Hence the magic of live television.
But I’m sure this will screw my television viewing somehow!
Thank you decency police for making this world a better place for children, and a sanitized wreck of blah for every adult.
posted by Eric LaRose at
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