It’s OK to use FUCK on early-evening TV!

Okay, point taken. This column is not about a mistake but a major breakthrough in the use by free-to-air media in Australia of the second naughtiest swear word in the world after cunt.

And the pioneer in this brave new world of expletive undeleted? None other than our Australian Broadcasting Corporation who clearly has decided that any damage caused to a young-un by hearing fuck used in prime-time television news programs can from now on be discounted. Not that any kiddy watches ABC 7pm news anyway but that’s not the point of this post.

What is the point is that the ABC’s 7pm news bulletins around this great brown land last night (Wednesday) – every state and every territory – did not bleep out an angry US president Donald Trump using fuck in a White House lawn tirade against on-going bombing between Israel and Iran.

The bitter, washed-up, old hacks who compile this column applaud the ABC entering the 21st Century and using a word that probably every child in Oz hears used repeatedly either at home, school or watching streaming services – or uses themselves liberally when making a point.

“The word cunt must surely be the next to be liberated regardless of the time of day a news bulletin is run” was the sincere hope of one of our older compilers.

So where to from now? The Media Glass House calls on the traditional print-media to follow the ABC’s commendable lead and let fuck flow freely in its hardcopy newspapers and online editions.

“Cunt too!” that compiler just shouted.

And why should they do that? For the same argument that applies to the ABC; no-one under the age of 16 is reading print or online newspapers any more! The sad, simple, fact is there’s no young mind left out there to be corrupted.

At the very least, those media outlets should follow the ABC’s lead and for fuck’s sake stop using s..t instead of shit.

“It’s only shit for fuck’s sake, you stupid cunts” just came the shout from you-know who.

Young lives are not going to spiral out of control if they see the word shit used in full. They know it’s the stuff that comes out of their own arseholes all the fucking time! Shit spelled out in full perfectly describes the bullshit we hear all the time, from pollies, PR people, NRL commentators and a whole heap of other shit-for-brains.

Sadly, we must finish off by reporting that one ABC program didn’t get the management memo that fuck was okay to use before impressionable kiddies’ bed time.

7.30 last night bleeped out Trump’s fine use of a word almost as long as the one that sums up the state of the world he’s helping create right now. And, no, you youngsters out there who won’t be reading this either, it’s not rooted!

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