Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!mks.com!jim
From: jim@mks.com (Jim Gardner)
Newsgroups: ont.general
Subject: Re: Stupid Censor Board
Message-ID: <1989Nov27.152646.19197@mks.com>
Date: 27 Nov 89 15:26:46 GMT
References: <647@alias.UUCP>
Reply-To: jim@mks.com (Jim Gardner)
Distribution: ont
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Lines: 33

In article <647@alias.UUCP> kpicott@alias.UUCP (Socrates) writes:
>I got a good yuck out of a censored word I heard on City the other night.
>The (censored) phrase went something like:
>	"... she's a ****** fucker"  (*** is the censored word)
>
>Makes sense eh?  I'm glad to see our children's ears are being protected
>from the dirtiest word of all... mother.  (oops, now *I've* said it!)

I believe Peter Gzowski mentioned a similar incident in one of his
radio shows, and he blamed it on the way they do the bleep.  Gzowski's
show goes out live in the Maritimes and is re-broadcast one hour later
in each time zone across the country.  When a nasty word comes up in an
interview or something, the technicians take an exact measure of the
time at which the word occurred and then program a computer to bleep
at that time in all re-broadcast.  This is more dependable than trusting
the reflexes of a human technician to push a bleep button at the right
time and it means that they don't have to doctor the actual tape of
the show.

Unfortunately, tapes "creep": they stretch a bit each time they are
played, which means that the timing changes a bit in re-broadcasts.
This means that they can end up bleeping the wrong word.

By the way, I have another explanation for CITY's broadcast.  It's
possible that there is some CRTC ruling saying that mother-fucker is
too horrendously obscene for broadcast but that fucker just squeaks
in under the wire.  In this case, it's just like CITY to bleep the
"mother" as a sly protest against the inanities of censors.  Remember
that back when there was a furor about cuts made in the movie of
The Tin Drum, CITY showed the cut scenes on their 6:00 newscast so
people would know what they were missing.

			Jim Gardner, Mortice Kern Systems


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