Government Regulations On Radio Broadcasting
In 1978 a radio station owned by Pacifica Foundation Broadcasting out of New
York City was doing a program on contemporary attitudes toward the use of
language. This broadcast occurred on a mid-afternoon weekday. Immediately
before the broadcast the station announced a disclaimer telling listeners
that the program would include "sensitive language which might be regarded as
offensive to some."(Gunther, 1991) As a part of the program the station
decided to air a 12 minute monologue called "Filthy Words" by comedian George
Carlin. The introduction of Carlin's "routine" consisted of, according to
Carlin, "words you couldn't say on the public air waves."(Carlin, 1977) The
introduction to Carlin's monologue listed those words and repeated them in a
variety of colloquialisms:
I was thinking about the curse words and the swear words, the cuss words and
the words that you can't say, that you're not supposed to say all the time.
I was thinking one night about the words......
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