Gentlemen, Gentlemen!
I spent a lot of my working years in television production and news. In that time I NEVER found it necessary to even say a hell or damn. The English language is quite capable of being used for an expression of frustration without resort to four letter words (cursing).
Even during my military service, a part of which was service as a Drill Instructor for a Basic Training Platoon, I did not find it necessary or appropriate to use curse words or a demeaning tone when addressing the troops. BTW, this was an award winning platoon.
The use of crude language and expressions is a measure of either ignorance or a significant lack of discipline and/or imagination. It is unnecessary, and usually counter productive.
That is not to say that I have not, on other private occassions, resorted to an explicative. In doing so, we only demean ourselves.
There is a difinition for discipline that is worthy of repeating: "Discipline is a mental attitude or state of training that renders proper obedience and conduct innate under ALL conditions" (emphasis mine).
Live television is, by difinition, one crisis after another.
IMO,
Woolly
I spent a lot of my working years in television production and news. In that time I NEVER found it necessary to even say a hell or damn. The English language is quite capable of being used for an expression of frustration without resort to four letter words (cursing).
Even during my military service, a part of which was service as a Drill Instructor for a Basic Training Platoon, I did not find it necessary or appropriate to use curse words or a demeaning tone when addressing the troops. BTW, this was an award winning platoon.
The use of crude language and expressions is a measure of either ignorance or a significant lack of discipline and/or imagination. It is unnecessary, and usually counter productive.
That is not to say that I have not, on other private occassions, resorted to an explicative. In doing so, we only demean ourselves.
There is a difinition for discipline that is worthy of repeating: "Discipline is a mental attitude or state of training that renders proper obedience and conduct innate under ALL conditions" (emphasis mine).
Live television is, by difinition, one crisis after another.
IMO,
Woolly