Showing posts with label television. Show all posts
Showing posts with label television. Show all posts

Saturday, 28 June 2008

Soaps or Sex


According to the UK's Sun paper, women are choosing to tune into tv rather than tune into their men. The survey says 17% of women aged between 16-24 hurry along sexual activities just to watch their favorite shows, the linked article also states:

Others plan annual holidays around the TV schedules or lie to friends about being busy so they can avoid missing their programme, a new study has revealed.


Well that in itself speaks enough if we are bringing in GIRLS at 16 into a sex survey. Interesting that a percentage of women would rather look at the idiot box than spend time with a partner, come on, television episodes usually only go for an hour a week, the other if you are lucky ...longer. Speaks volumes for communication skills if tv takes preference. Let them do a survey among the older than 24 age group, I think the outcome would be very different. Decisions, decisions....to turn on the television or turn on your man?

Thursday, 19 June 2008

Ramsay's Language to Stay

A federal parliamentary committee has rejected a push to ban swearing on television.

But the committee has recommended that classification codes be made clearer to better inform viewers of what to expect.

Senator Anne McEwen says some submissions to the committee called for offensive language to be limited.

But most Australians accept that adults should be free to see and hear what they want on TV, Senator McEwan says.
She also noted that the committee uncovered widespread concern about the language used by celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay on Channel Nine's Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares.

He reportedly used the f-word 80 times in one episode.

"People were offended by the way Ramsay directed his language to his restaurant staff in an abusive and aggressive manner," Senator McEwan said

"A number of people made the point that that was probably more offensive than the actual words used."

Liberal Senator Cory Bernardi says the committee never intended to push for any form of censorship.

But Senator Bernardi says he still has concerns about the language used by Ramsay

"No one has yet been able to convince me that an M-rated show such as an episode of Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares that contained the F-word - and I'm not referring to fondue - 80 times in 40 minutes is infrequent coarse language," he said.
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