'It may not have started with streaming media, but streaming media is pushing the F-word in a way that would have been inconceivable just five or 10 years ago, and it is having a trickle-down effect,' Melissa Henson writes.
points out that six of the 10 most popular shows on streaming “are rated TV-MA and include multiple uses of the F-word, including the cartoon ‘Rick and Morty.’ Another, the TV-14-rated ‘Cobra Kai,’ also has the occasional f-word.”
John Landgraf, former president of the FX cable network, opined that the debate over language standards on television is a thing of the past: “We’ve used the F-word on air now multiple times in the last several years… So we’re on the verge of being, kind of, done with the debate or battle over language. It’s close anyway.
Television carries the imprimatur of acceptability for all kinds of activities. According to popular culture expert and Syracuse University professor Robert Thompson, “once prime-time television decides to absorb something, it becomes a stamp of normalcy. It’s no longer controversial. It’s no longer a big deal. It makes it a casual, accepted sort of thing.
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