A f***wit on the Daily Politics

[mcgameboy]

This programme gets broadcast on BBC2 at 12 noon. The dude said it like it was a perfectly acceptable word for daytime TV and just carried on talking like nothing had happened lol.

 

[PNEFOREVER2]

It's embarrassing, embarrassing that people have to do this sort of thing to A) get their point across, B) get their '15 minutes of fame' and C) stoop to another level and show everyone that politicians still can't abide by rules ie no swearing before the watershed. Idiot.

Glad I didn't have kids in front of the telly.

 

[mathsboy1975]

Glad I didn't have kids in front of the telly.

Not that I am condoning it but I doubt very much that your kids have not heard a lot worse unless they are home tutored. To be fair, this kind of thing is a risk with ANY form of live TV and I have never understood why there is not a short time delay to give the program producer time to edit this out. After all we see kind of editing a lot with much of the abominable reality TV that pervades UK television at the moment

 

[Jory]

 

[PNEFOREVER2]

Not that I am condoning it but I doubt very much that your kids have not heard a lot worse unless they are home tutored. To be fair, this kind of thing is a risk with ANY form of live TV and I have never understood why there is not a short time delay to give the program producer time to edit this out. After all we see kind of editing a lot with much of the abominable reality TV that pervades UK television at the moment

I don't have kids, I meant if I had.

If I had 4 or 5 year old kids I wouldn't want them picking up words like that, yes I'm sure they'll pick up swearing at some point in their lives, but I'd rather them pick it up as late as possible.

 

[vinylweatherman]

He was quoting, so can't change it without distorting the facts. It's a reflection of the fact that such words are now in everyday use everywhere else EXCEPT the telly prior to 9pm. Broadcasters actually "sanitise" the news before it goes out before 9pm, and it's not just expletives, but sometimes the important details of a story that gets cut or played down.

If any kids were watching, fine the parents £100 because they should have been in school.

What do they do with BBC Parliament before 9pm? Maybe they just assume that no kid would want to watch such boring drivel so it's not a problem.

The real problem now with TV is not the odd swearword, but the hard hitting and over exaggerated storylines in some "soap" dramas going out before 9pm.

Of course, for a politician such a slip is embarrassing as the press are sure to leap on it and use it as an attack on a politician from a party not supported by the editorial team.

Look how Clarkson was put through the mincer over a word he DIDN'T say on a take that was never broadcast. Prior to this, he was attacked over a racist term no one here had heard of before, but now we all know of a new word with which to offend people of Asian descent.