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Former Sex Pistols performer Glen Matlock calls for less profanity in Music and TV now that he has children.HEY GLEN! could it be 30 years too late??I love how these aging Punk rockers have suddenly found themselves now that they have kids.The Sex Pistols were very popular when I was in High School. I never understood the attraction myself. I was into the Beatles, the Stones, the B52s, DevoNeil Young... etc. I never cared for the groups that used profanity at the drop of a hat. Call me an old fogey!

 March 1, 2005   “JERRY SPRINGER” BETTER STAY IN BRITAIN  The Catholic League has been monitoring plans to bring “Jerry Springer: The Opera” to Broadway for some time, but has refrained from saying anything because the initial plans were scrapped.  However, it is being reported today that if the producers can come up with the cash, they will bring “Springer” to Broadway in spring 2006.  Here is what others have said about the show: The opera "contains up to 8,000 profanities and features tap-dancers dressed as Ku Klux Klan members and a showdown between Satan and a diaper-wearing Jesus." Amidst...

Mon 28 Feb 2005 4:26pm (UK) Swearing Is Just Pathetic, Says Sex Pistol Star By Anita Singh, PA Showbusiness Editor They outraged the nation with their four-letter outburst on teatime television – but former Sex Pistol Glen Matlock now says he disapproves of swearing. The band’s bassist claims repeated use of the f-word is “pathetic”. Now a respectable family man, Matlock does not like his children, aged 11 and seven, hearing obscenities on the radio or TV. “It’s pathetic when people just swear for the sake of it,” the 48-year-old tells a Channel 4 show this Sunday. “Something ought to...

U.S. communications regulators on Monday rejected complaints that the broadcast of "Saving Private Ryan," a film depicting the U.S. landing in France during World War II, violated indecency limits. The Federal Communications Commission unanimously decided that ABC television affiliates did not violate indecency regulations when they aired the movie on Veteran's Day in November, despite complaints about profanity and violence. Sixty-six ABC stations decided against showing the award-winning film for fear of running afoul with the FCC, which has been cracking down on broadcast and radio stations after several high-profile incidents."In light of the overall context in which this material...

What was all that controversy about? Supposed bad boy Chris Rock delivered a naughty word in his first sentence Sunday night at the Oscars, then followed with a surprisingly flat and uninspired performance. The wail of outrage that fits so well with his highly charged comedy routines was just too much noise when aimed at insignificant show-biz targets like Jude Law and Cuba Gooding. Cracks about President George W. Bush's fiscal policy were mildly amusing, if predictable, but it was just poor taste to compare real fighting and dying in Iraq to a battle between clerks at the Gap and...

WHAT was Chris Rock's contribution to Oscar history last night? • Women's Fury Over Axed Aide He said "ass" a lot. Otherwise, his overly hyped hosting stint was woefully undistinguished. You could even tell from the audience's reaction that he was flopping. The Hollywood stars and bigwigs in the Kodak Theater gave him a standing ovation when he was introduced, but their enthusiasm flagged as his monologue stretched on for far too long. Their laughter at the outset shortly gave way to polite applause — a sure sign the comedian was not putting it across, even if he was straining...

While the decency wars continue to rage in Washington, the MPAAMPAA has okayed the most profane PG-13 pic ever. Palm PicturesPalm Pictures won its appeal Thursday of the original R rating given to Iraq war docudocu "Gunner Palace." Pic is the Michael Tucker and Petra Epperlein-helmed docu following U.S. soldiers living in a bombed-out palace formerly owned by Saddam Hussein's son Uday. "Palace" was picked up by Palm last year at the Toronto Film Festival via the Submarine and Cinetic MediaCinetic Media sales banners. "Palace" contains no gory footage, but the docu does contain numerous instances of soldiers cursing, including...

Chaunce Hayden, target of a subpoena into an investigation of possible insider trading in the stock of Sirius just before Howard Stern announced he would move his broadcast to the satellite network, ... told EDC that, "A protest outside the SEC building should occur for anybody who pays taxes, on the day I am scheduled to testify." "This is a waste of taxpayer money. It's ludicrous and shameful. It's just some people who want to get their name in the paper trying to take down a big name. It's Martha Stewart all over again." The SEC view seems to be...

Once upon a time, John Wayne and a handsome actor named Ronald Reagan gave America an idea of the warrior's life through G-rated films with nary a curse or expletive. Such things don't cut it anymore, at least according to "Frontline," the weekly public affairs series from WGBH, a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) affiliate in Boston. In the name of editorial freedom, "Frontline" producers are asking other PBS affiliates across the country to air a salty version of a new 90-minute documentary on the daily challenges of the U.S. Army's 8th Cavalry Regiment in Baghdad — swear words and all....

NEW YORK -- Worried about the Federal Communications Commission, PBS is taking the words out of the mouths of some soldiers filmed during combat in Iraq. The public broadcaster is distributing "clean" and "raw" versions of next Tuesday's "Frontline" documentary about the Iraq war, titled "A Company of Soldiers," and is warning that it can't insure stations against FCC fines stemming from the language. It's an example of the TV industry's continued uncertainty about FCC standards for language and content, and a real-life echo of a decision made last fall by 66 ABC affiliates not to air the movie "Saving...

F*** the South. F*** 'em. We should have let them go when they wanted to leave. But no, we had to kill half a million people so they'd stay part of our special Union. Fighting for the right to keep slaves - yeah, those are states we want to keep. And now what do we get? We're the f****** Arrogant Northeast Liberal Elite? How about this for arrogant: the South is the Real America? The Authentic America. Really? Cause we f****** founded this country, a*******s. Those Founding Fathers you keep going on and on about? All that b******t about what...

You might think that bad language has increased on primetime television. But Barbara Kaye knows it for a fact. Over the past dozen years Kaye, an associate professor in the University of Tennessee's School of Journalism and Electronic Media, and colleague Barry Sapolsky, a Florida State University professor, have chronicled the ebbs and flows of bad and profane words on primetime network television. Their latest article, "Offensive Language in Prime Time Television: Four Years After Television Age and Content Ratings" was published in December in The Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media. "Profanity increased between 1997 and 2001 to a...

The Associated Press WASHINGTON Jan 24, 2005 — Regulators rejected 36 complaints of indecency Monday against popular TV shows including "Friends" and "The Simpsons." The objections had been filed with the Federal Communications Commission by the Parents Television Council, a watchdog group that frequently complains about sex and violence on television. "In context, none of the segments were patently offensive under contemporary community standards for the broadcast medium, and thus not indecent," the agency said in a statement. The FCC also ruled "the material was not profane, in context." Three members of the five-member FCC approved the orders: Chairman Michael...

CNN AIRS PROTESTER SHOUTING 'F#%& BUSH' SIX TIMES... NETWORK DOESN'T CUT AUDIO FEED OF PROLONGED JEER... DEVELOPING...

No Kid Rock at Bush concert Committee backs off plan to feature rapper after pro-family Americans express outrage Kid Rock, the vulgar rock-rapper who initially had been lined up to headline the youth concert next week as part of the inauguration festivities for President Bush, will not be apppearing after all. "He's not performing," a spokesman for the Presidential Inauguration Committee confirmed for WND. No further information about the cancellation of Kid Rock was available at press time. Word that the rapper will not join JoJo and Hilary Duff as performers at the Jan. 18 concert, which will be hosted...

NOT content with trampling smokers' rights, the New York State Dept. of Health has launched an insidious campaign to erase all traces of tobacco from the movies. The department's tobacco control program was behind the formation of Reality Check, a well-funded group supposedly started by and for teens against smoking. One of R.C.'s missions is to eradicate smoking from the movies, and their methods have put some noses out of joint. [snip] Insiders say Reality Check plans an even more outrageous campaign, however. In addition to pressuring studios to keep smoking and cigarettes out of new movies — beginning...

Retiree gets probation after tussling with younger man over foul language Wed Dec 15, 4:02 AM ET ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - A 79-year-old retiree who tussled with a man half his age over the man's foul language in a restaurant was sentenced to probation. But outside of that, he's been treated more like a hero than a criminal. Bill Stevenson said the fracas began in July when he and another retired 3M engineer, Sten Gerfast, 74, were having coffee at a bagel shop. In walked Jesse Tabor, 40, talking on a cellphone and liberally using four-letter words, the men...

Even Hollywood liberals were left reeling after Chevy Chase's potty-mouthed Bush-bashing Tuesday night at the Kennedy Center, where the actor hosted an awards ceremony staged by People for the American Way. The WASHINGTON POST on Thursday claims Chase unleashed a rant against President Bush that stunned the crowd. He deployed the four-letter word that got Vice President Dick Cheney in hot water, using it as a noun. Chase called the prez a "dumb (expletive)." He also used it as an adjective, assuring the audience, "I'm no (expletive) clown either. ... This guy started a jihad." Chase also said: "This guy...

I turn on my TV tonight and it happened to be tuned to FOX TV. The Billboard Music Awards were on and the (reformed) band Motley Crue was giving out an award for the digital download artist of the year (winner was Maroon 5). One of the band members used the word "motherf***ker". Being that there is a delay the word was beeped out, but it was very clear what he said. And this happened in the 8 o'clock EST hour. How disgusting. Perhaps FOX should show this broadcast at a later hour, or how about not showing this garbage...

Why do liberals feel the need to use an expletive in virtually every sentence? With the advent of the Internet, it has become rather commonplace for writers to include e-mail addresses at the end of their columns to welcome input from their readers. Invariably, a respectable percentage of the responses that come to a conservative writer will of course be from members of the opposite camp. Unfortunately, these are typically not PG-rated. For example, an article that I had written after the first presidential debate evoked hundreds of e-mail messages from around the country, with many of them referring to...