February 15th, 2008
Jane Fonda just used the unbleeped "C" word on Today Show: what's next?
During the Today show, well, today, guest Jane Fonda talked about “The Vagina Monologues” with host Meredith Viera.
While referring to the play, Jane let a word slip out that rhymes with what U.S. football teams often do on fourth down.
And the bleeper didn’t catch it either.
So why am I writing about it on this blog?
I just know that this remark will be political fodder for more regulation of broadcast television. And with so many broadcast and cable shows available on the Internet and on your mobile device, what legal liability would retransmitters of content with such language incur?
Forget “wardrobe malfunction,” and Janet Jackson’s exposed breast. Now we have Jane Fonda- a controversial figure in her own right, saying a word that, frankly, most of the women I know are more offended by than the gutteral term for incestuous intercourse.
And it’s morning hours, and the kids could have been watching? Can Western civilization stand this “vulgarity?”
Or in conversations that probably are going on as I type this:
“Mommy what’s a …”
Gasp.
Russell Shaw is an enterprise computing journalist, analyst and author based in Portland, Oregon. See his full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations.
