Cast of The Real Housewives of Auckland Photo: Supplied
The mainstream media have had a few calls to make lately on swear words.
Broadcaster Martin Devlin’s sweary rant on Radio Sport made the papers last week, as did the ‘longest bleep in history’ on The Real Housewives of Auckland.
But why do media companies regularly use full stops, dashes or bleeps when reporting the use of swear words?
If the words are deemed too offensive to print or broadcast, surely it would be better to disguise them in a way that the readers or listeners really don’t know what’s being said?
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