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Group: alt.tv.amazingrace · Group Profile
Author: Martin PhippsMartin Phipps Date: Sep 19, 2008 05:04
On Sep 19, 2:47Â pm, "alooo" realaddress.com> wrote:> "Rich Piehl" NOSPAMcharter.net> wrote
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>>> alooo wrote:
>>> "Martin Phipps" yahoo.com> wrote>>>> There were a few teams that were awfully weak on yesterday's TARA and
>>>> a few teams that seemed pretty strong. Â One of the things that
>>>> surprised me was the swearing: the words were beeped but we could hear
>>>> "f**k" and "f**king" and "s**t" a lot. Â I know it was a tough race
>>>> but, boys and girls, please watch the language because everybody knows
>>>> what you're saying. Â The cameramen are there to catch drama after all
>>>> and aren't going to look away when you have a hissy fit! Â TARA is
>>>> different from TAR because people are representing their respective
>>>> countries. Â You'd think that would be enough for them to behave with a
>>>> degree of decorum!
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>>> You gotta be kidding. Now there are complaints about words that were
>>> bleeped??? They're just fucking words. They won't kill anybody.
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>> Maybe they are just words to you but children do watch the show. Â Some
>> people like to have a little control over what their children hear.
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>> Take care,
>> Rich
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> For starters, I addressed a complaint against words that were already
> bleeped out.
Yes and no. If I can hear f*ck and sh*t then it wasn't entirely
bleeped out. I think they wanted the viewers to know what the racers
were saying. Let's face it, all they would have had to do was not
record the racers when they were swearing or else simply edit it out
altogether. Instead, the final show as shown for repeats basically
had a constant beep sound every couple of minutes. My guess is that
there were some complaints, either from viewers, advertisers, censors,
AXN executives or some combination there of. You might argue that
swearing on TV is okay (and, granted, I certainly hear enough of it on
HBO) but AXN repeats The Amazing Race Asia on the Fridays at 12:00
noon and then again on Saturdays at 11:00 am. I watched it again on
Saturday and there were only a couple of sh*ts that got through so
they must have gone back and made the beeps longer so that the words
were properly censored out.
Martin
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