Editorial opinion (T.V. Censorship)

Lately I have been watching television. I was watching a show called "Room Raiders," the show where parents hate a girlfriend or boy friend and decide to pick out new contestants for their girl or boy to start dating. Then they show a corny date for each contestant desperately trying to get the girl or boy to like them and to pick them as a new girl or boy friend. For a short disturbing period of time while i was watching i kept hearing bleeps instead of "bad words" while some guy was talking trash to his girlfriends dad. Instead of thinking nothing of it every time i heard the all censoring beeping noise, I started thinking of the worst possible words that the guy could have been saying.
I noticed at one point in time that they didn't censor out the word ass, but censored out the word hole (which I noticed by a facial reading). Which got me really thinking of what he could have possibly said that was more of a swear word then ass.

In my opinion, television shows should not censor anything, just cut out absurd gestures if needed, and add a higher age limitation on certain shows with more profanity. This year every one has to switch to digital cable anyways, where there is uncensored channels already on the digital cable channels, so why not do what those channels do and put specific age restrictions. Not PG-L because there is a lot of swearing but it is beeped out. Once the kids that are not supposed to be watching shows with profanity in it learn swear words and understand they are censoring them, I'm willing to bet a majority of them will replace the bleeping noise with even more vulgar comments. For example, a man on a reality show is very upset about a cheeseburger with pickles at McDonalds because he ordered the burger "ketchup only," so angry that all you hear is, what the bleep bleep, there is bleep pickles in my bleep burger. Even a 8 year old could fill in the blanks with his favorite (or not so favorite) curses or racial slurs just because some guy was upset about a burger. If your about to censor that guy for swearing at his burger (which never happened, it was just an example), you might as well take out the whole scene. Another way of censoring shows is to take a swear word and change it into family friendly words (usually laughable different sounding voices) Example, what the heck you air head, in replacement of hell and the f word.

The opposing side of this topic has only 2 main reasons why they want things censored, because they dont want their children to hear it, which is going to happen no matter what and is irrelevant because the majority of people swear. Also another reason is they dont want to hear it, but are to stubborn to change the channel. But lets face it, if you cant handle the words, dont watch the show, it wasnt made for you anyways if you cant bear it. Just keep watching re-runs of "Seinfeld," or "Barney and friends" if your into shows that are not good and never use foul language.

Like I said before, this year everyone will be switching to digital television, which will feature channels of the most profanity your kids senstive ears will ever hear, and they can watch them over and over again for free any time on "On Demand" usually. Its like satin wispering foul langauge into their ears extending their vocabulary to unholy lengths. Maybe not, but instead of blaming the T.V. for ruining you childrens innocence that they will eventually lose anyway, you can be a real parent and check in on them to make sure they are watching appropriate shows, or with the digital cable box, block certain channels from existance (high five). So lets stop blaming the T.V. for spewing out words you dont enjoy, and place blame upon yourselfs. Bleeping out swear words generates more thoughts about swear words then if someone were to be swearing the words, ultimately making your potty mouth boys and girls say more swear words, or maybe even invent more ways to say swear words. So lets do the right thing and uncensor T.V. like it should be and place age restrictions on shows, or let the parents ban shows they deem inapropriate for their household. Just bleep do it, bleep.