Reporting from Washington — The Supreme Court would not be recommended as the best place in this city to hear a raucous conversation that makes full use of the F-word, the S-word and assorted other vulgarities.
It is a place of decorum. Officers will firmly reprimand a visitor who errs by leaning an elbow on the next chair.
Tuesday morning may be an exception, however. While the nation focuses on the presidential election, the justices will discuss the F-word and its variants in a case that could determine whether these words will be heard more on television and radio.
The nation’s broadcasters are fighting fines imposed by the Federal Communications Commission for airing the banned words, even if inadvertently.
How about the application of a moistened, soaped wash cloth to the oral outlet?
I was dismayed when the allowed the phrase represented by the letters “SoB” and the “B” part as well on its own to be on air.
Frankly, I’d like to see some tightening of the standards, not making them looser.
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