Some call in host will bleep you if you mention a business or say a housing development by name because it's considered either free advertisement or if the comment is negative, lawsuit-bait. you should see the trouble Dave Letterman gets into. I think at one time he'd managed to draw the ire the nation of Columbia.
On another note Comedy Central's South Park just ran an episode in which 'shit' and variations of that word were repeated endlessly with a digital counter keeping score. It was subsequently shown that 'curse words' were indeed curses that brought up some great medieval demon from the center of the earth...
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Re: Things you can't say in broadcasting...
Date: 2001-10-03 09:17 am (UTC)On another note Comedy Central's South Park just ran an episode in which 'shit' and variations of that word were repeated endlessly with a digital counter keeping score. It was subsequently shown that 'curse words' were indeed curses that brought up some great medieval demon from the center of the earth...