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BBC presenters are expected to be banned from swearing after the 9pm watershed and from conducting “humiliating and intimidating†prank phone calls under sweeping changes to the corporation’s editorial guidelines unveiled today.

The BBC will take the radical step of putting its guidelines out for public consultation, as it tries to rebuild the trust of viewers after editorial blunders such as the obscene prank phone calls involving Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand.

The BBC Trust, the internal regulator, has conducted a review of the rules governing programming and is expected to propose new regulations banning the use of the most offensive language between 9pm and 10pm except in exceptional circumstances, and encouraging producers to “bleep†more swear words.

Other plans expected to be put forward for public consideration include new restrictions on risqué breakfast radio presenters, such as Chris Moyles, whose shows are broadcast when large numbers of children are listening.

Rest of the article can be found here http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/media/article6863757.ece

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This doesn't sound fantastic.
Great example of PC gone mad,

Shush.

its probably not that far from the truth :(

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ABORT! ABORT! ABORT!!!!

love how they keep digging themselves deeper & go on to predict their own downfall.

still make me :hahaha: even now :giggle:

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Talk about everyone making a mountain out of a molehill.

The story clearly says that the BBC will be banning the most offensive swearwords after 9pm - guess what, no one can swear before then anyway unless they can justify the editorial context which isn't that hard to do if it's genuinely justifyable. This will in no way affect Moyles as, guess what, Moyles doesn't swear in his show unless it's an accident and apologises thereafter, in which case no one will complain and he'll be fine. What will bleeping out words at 9am prove? "Yeah, I'm sure showing you that the rules about swearing that we've had across the various mediums for decades are dumb".

It also clearly won't affect Mills too much, as the key example of an intimidating and humiliating prank call is the Russell Brand/Jonathan Ross saga. I don't think Mills does anything humiliating to anyone, and certainly isn't intimidating. The day that he tells a butcher in Norwich that he fucked their granddaughter is the day he'll be in trouble. Until then, he'll be fine.

Come on people, read the stories properly before you jump into hyperbole.

 

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UTV News has just posted a story on this as well mostly repeating what has already been said but with a little bit more details. This paragraph stuck out though:

Radio, ie Chris Moyles and Radio 1, cannot broadcast strong language when children are listening, at breakfast and afternoon drive-times. Wind-ups and deceptions must be pre-recorded, so the victim's consent is obtained (or not).

http://u.tv/News/Will-tighter-guidelines-destroy-the-BBC-or-protect-it/b4ac0572-7f39-46dd-a790-5d15d2bead29

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In other words, the same rules that already are/should be in place.

I think these articles are mostly about the BBC reminding people that they do have policies in place and letting people know what they are. I think a lot of it is the media hyping it up so to speak

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