JMS: B5 Declared Vulgar?!

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From: "J. Weaver Jr." <jwjr at pobox.com>
Date: 14 Dec 1999 14:00:21 -0700
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Derek Beebe wrote:
> 
> Is Bab 5 A Dirty Bird?
> 
>                     Recently, the Center for Media and Public Affairs
> (CMPA) released its
>                     new study "The Rude and the Crude: Profanity in
> Popular Entertainment"
>                     which examines the use of profanity and verbal filth
> on television. In the
>                     study's ranking of the twelve most foul-mouthed
> series on broadcast and
>                     cable TV, two science fiction series stood out. As a
> syndicated series,
>                     Bablylon 5 tied for fourth among broadcast
> television shows in coarse
>                     language and profanity used. Farscape, which appears
> on the Sci-Fi
>                     network, tied for tenth among cable series.
> 
>                                                           --The
> Washington Post

In you read the entire Post article about this, you'll note that almost
everything about this "study" is both questionable and questioned.

...starting, of course, with the fact that, for the 1998-1999 television
season which the survey covers, B5 was _not_ a "syndicated series", but
rather a cable series, appearing exclusively on TNT.  -JW


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From: jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5)
Date: 14 Dec 1999 16:10:32 -0700
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And I couldn't possibly be prouder.

 jms

(jmsatb5 at aol.com)
B5 Official Fan Club at:
http://www.thestation.com




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