Society/Culture Crackdown on television smut

[RUNVS]

Crackdown on television smut
http://www.news.com.au/entertainmen...-television-smut/story-e6frfmyi-1225811953116

TELEVISION networks will be forced to justify nudity, sex scenes and dirty jokes under a crackdown by the Australian TV watchdog next year.

The new rules were sparked by outrage over Big Brother's explicit sexual content and treatment of its contestants during its eight-year run.
Networks could face fines for repeated breaches of the code, which begins on January 1.

http://www.news.com.au/entertainmen...-television-smut/story-e6frfmyi-1225811953116

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I considered putting this in the entertainment section but this is more of a society issue. Is Australia now becoming a prudish nation which is happy to watch high level of violence at any time of the day but gets squeamish at the thought of sex and nudity on our television screens?

I used to laugh at the stupid nudity laws that the USA have but we are fast becoming more like them.

 

[MightyFighting]

I see the prudish hand of Rudd in this.

 

[Fire]

We as a society are regressing.

 

[MightyFighting]

I miss Hawke and Keating.

 

[Copernicus]

**** the wowsers.

**** them. And **** the swear filter, while I'm at it!

 

[Eagle87]

I see the prudish hand of Rudd in this.

Probably better described as the hypocritically prudish hand of Rudd......

http://www.scoresny.com/en/

 

[Oscarman]

Might as well can the classification system and make everything to Ned Flanders standards.

This has Rudd's smell all over it. Australian Christian Lobby must be pumping some serious coin to the ALP.

 

[skilts]

"Crackdown" is an unfortunate turn of phrase. Last time I read something similar was in the Herald-Sun a few years ago, when the headline read, "Crackdown on Table-top Dancing".

 

[skipper kelly]

I prefer to partake rather than watch.

 

[mantis]

This is what happens when you vote for the two L's, who are run by religious nutters. Goodbye South Park.

 

[Ant_]

Might as well can the classification system and make everything to Ned Flanders standards.

This has Rudd's smell all over it. Australian Christian Lobby must be pumping some serious coin to the ALP.

Definitely, they've got Conroy well and truly sewn up. Also it was the ALP's preference deals that gave Family First a seat. They're now just a right of center party which is heading further right everyday.

 

[tandino]

If anything, there should be more smut on television.

 

[Mr Eagle]

Actually if you read what the "crackdown" involves, it really ain't much of a crackdown at all. It's lip service to prudish concerns - I reckon half-competent spin doctors could answer these questions in their sleep.


"PROVE sex scenes and nudity are relevant to plots if they receive complaints."

"EXPLAIN how dirty jokes and references were necessary to the show."

Piece of cake.

 

[Geelong_Sicko]

**** the wowsers.

**** them. And **** the swear filter, while I'm at it!

Aaah, the wisdom of Copernicus!

 

[Dees 31]

Smut...schmut
Wanna know what TV smut is:
1. Screaming Harvey Norman Ads
2. Screaming JB Hi Fi Ads
3. KFC Ads telling us there's ONE COOK in each franchise kitchen, oh wow!
4. Kevin Rudd making sure he's interviewed outside the gates of his church every Sunday he's in his country.
5. McDonalds pushing salads so we might be less likely to sue them for making our kids fat.
6. "20,000" scientists who agree on global warming when 110 countries can't agree on it. (By the way... name the scientists... I dare you.)
7. Watching a bunch of moronic teenagers interacting while locked in a house littered with TV cameras... can't remember what the show was called.
8. Trying to figure out what Lee Lin Chin was thinking when she wore her latest 'designer' outfit on the SBS news.
9. Watching any unfunny, over lit, trite and hackneyed US TV sit-com with 'canned laughter' tracks.
10. Watching any appalling TV reality show where the participants cry. (As if whatever there're on about is really worth crying over.)
11. Paying a heap of money to watch Pay TV and still getting annoying commercials that you get 'for nothing' on free to air TV.
12. Trying to figure out why, apparently, Rove is so popular.

Now, that's all SMUT!
Cheers,
Dees 31

 

[DeanoT]

Smut...schmut
Wanna know what TV smut is:
1. Screaming Harvey Norman Ads
2. Screaming JB Hi Fi Ads
3. KFC Ads telling us there's ONE COOK in each franchise kitchen, oh wow!
4. Kevin Rudd making sure he's interviewed outside the gates of his church every Sunday he's in his country.
5. McDonalds pushing salads so we might be less likely to sue them for making our kids fat.
6. "20,000" scientists who agree on global warming when 110 countries can't agree on it. (By the way... name the scientists... I dare you.)
7. Watching a bunch of moronic teenagers interacting while locked in a house littered with TV cameras... can't remember what the show was called.
8. Trying to figure out what Lee Lin Chin was thinking when she wore her latest 'designer' outfit on the SBS news.
9. Watching any unfunny, over lit, trite and hackneyed US TV sit-com with 'canned laughter' tracks.
10. Watching any appalling TV reality show where the participants cry. (As if whatever there're on about is really worth crying over.)
11. Paying a heap of money to watch Pay TV and still getting annoying commercials that you get 'for nothing' on free to air TV.
12. Trying to figure out why, apparently, Rove is so popular.

Now, that's all SMUT!
Cheers,
Dees 31

All correct except for no 11. Why do people care if there are ads on Foxtel ? It's not called commercial-free TV, it's subscription TV, and no self-respecting sports lover would be without it.

 

[Mr Q]

If it gets rid of some (un-)reality TV, then I'm all for it. May Big Brother never darken the airwaves ever again.

 

[Rustin Cohle]

They're about two years too late on this. Big Brother isn't even on the air anymore. Honestly, there's rarely any smut on TV these days. Nearly everything is a crime/hospital show.

 

[DarwinRoo]

Home and Away is TV's own swingers party. Can that show possibly employ more skanks than it already does?

 

[Dry Rot]

They're about two years too late on this. Big Brother isn't even on the air anymore. Honestly, there's rarely any smut on TV these days. Nearly everything is a crime/hospital show.

Doesn't mean those shows are OK - I've actually seen naked bodies on slabs during post mortems.

Hopefully these sensible new rules will ensure that corpses will be properly dressed in future.

 

[skilts]

Doesn't mean those shows are OK - I've actually seen naked bodies on slabs during post mortems.

Hopefully these sensible new rules will ensure that corpses will be properly dressed in future.

I presume you watch these shows to see how the cull is progressing. It's disappointing that twelve less people have died from road trauma in Victoria this year. Still, plenty of time left to pick up the slack.

 

[AndSmithMustScore]

Channel 10 should be censored for just being an overall garbage tv station.

 

[Sloth]

I feel like complaining there is not enough smut on television. I want to see 3.5 nipples per hour or I'm starting a letter campaign.

 

[Dry Rot]

I presume you watch these shows to see how the cull is progressing. It's disappointing that twelve less people have died from road trauma in Victoria this year. Still, plenty of time left to pick up the slack.

I still have high hopes for bird flu. Merry Xmas to you skilts.

 

[skilts]

I still have high hopes for bird flu. Merry Xmas to you skilts.

All is not lost. You have a Chrappy Histmas as well, and a holey one.