The War Over Language

At least two TV stations will show an uncensored documentary about soldiers in Iraq despite a warning from PBS that it can't insure stations against FCC fines stemming from bad language. Frontline doesn't even air until 10pm in most locations. Those kiddies that need earmuffs should be in bed at that point. I can't even imagine anyone thinking that they would watch a documentory just because it had bad language in it.

As I've been learning in class sometimes you can't seperate the message of the speech from the form of the speech. If a soldier in Iraq who is killing people and breaking things in order to maintain the fledgling hope of democracy over there wants to drop the F-bomb, maybe we should be given a chance to hear that.