Censoring+Life

1. I would assume you are working independently at this point. Is that correct**? No Tristan was not here one day** 2. 3rd person point of view only. Please fix this. **Check** 3. Parenthetical citations are not optional. Please use the reference materials provided and include them BEFORE you begin writing your essay. Read the instructions on the homepage if you are unfamiliar with where to find the reference materials. 4. Formalize your topic sentences. "like it dirty" is a slang term and is not acceptable for formal papers. It's also not a very valid claim. Rephrase or redo that paragraph to strengthen your ethos and logos.‍ **Check**

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‍‍‍‍‍Outline:I. Introduction: (include general ideas that will introduce your topic)
II. Body Paragraph #1 - Topic Sentence (subject + opinion) This should be your first main idea or claim. >> III. Body Paragraph #2 - Topic Sentence (subject + opinion) This should be your second main idea or claim.
 * Music lyrics should not be censored because that is like censoring the author's emotions and abuses their freedom.
 * Meanwhile, some artists feel so strongly about the lyrical content of certain songs that they never release a clean radio-oriented single. A recent case in point is The Coup's "Repo Man," which will never make it to the clean section of songs despite the requests of many.
 * Leto admits he knew the footage would cause controversy, but he never expected the video to be so widely shunned.
 * "I'm not interested in provocation for provocation's sake. I just think it's interesting that when you turn on the news or whatever else catches your interest, how much violence and negativity is available out there. As soon as it comes time for sexuality, it's a big shock that people are sexual beings. It's an interesting double standard to me."
 * Think music lyrics should be censored because the majority of listeners enjoy hearing the original explicit, uncensored version and hear it as it was supposed to be. Using his daily radio program - //The Donny Osmond Show//- as a platform, Donny Osmond today jumped into the controversy surrounding the recently released Lady Gaga "Telephone" video featuring Beyonce. The video has been widely criticized for its depiction of graphic violence and explicit sex.
 * "I'm all for freedom of speech and against any form of censorship, but all I know is that I'm a parent and I'm upset about this," said Osmond. "Unlike 20 years ago, in today's modern, viral world in which content becomes instantaneously available irrespective of age, I wonder whether the music industry might need to rethink its marketing policies with regard to making an explicit music video containing profanity, sexual exploitation, nudity, and graphic violence available to anyone with internet access. I wouldn't want my child to watch this video. Would you?
 * Should these two extremely gifted female role models to millions of young girls, maybe, have given a little more thought to the effect it might have on their core audience?"

IV. Body Paragraph #3 - Topic Sentence (subject + opinion) This should be your third main idea or claim.

Music lyrics should not be censored because it is silencing the artist's hard work and keeps them from spreading their message. When Green Day sang that they are the "faggot America" in their hit single "American Idiot," they are rejecting the "redneck agenda" and "paranoia" that in their view are sweeping the nation. So there is some irony in the fact that the word "faggot" has been bleeped out of the song on a number of radio stations across the country, presumably because of its indecent nature. Finding out the procedure for such an absurd act of censorship is not easy. Wade through the policy statements and obscenity violation documents the Federal Communications Commission makes available to the public, and you will fast get lost in a sea of legal jargon. A spokeswoman for the FCC, however, says the FCC has no capability to police the airwaves and that the organization only responds to complaints from the public. "Only then can we determine the context of the complaint," she says. "'Faggot' is not a word which would qualify as indecent," believes Marjorie Heins, founder of the Free Expression Policy Project in New York City. "This is clearly an instance of corporate censorship on the part of Clear Channel. Since the FCC is not involved, the First Amendment doesn't read that as an issue. Clear Channel is deciding that for its own marketing strategy or corporate ideology that it wants to bleep out a word, and therefore it's not a First Amendment issue. However, it is a serious problem. It wouldn't matter if they only owned a couple of stations, but they own over 1,200." SEOUL, October 18, 2011 (Yonhap) -- The government has established new detailed rules for censoring domestic pop songs harmful to minors in order to enhance the objectivity of the process, the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family said on Monday. The ministry has come under fire for applying too strict standards when choosing local music albums to ban from being sold to those younger than 19. The ministry said the new rules focused on giving narrow latitude to officials in determining harmful songs and enhancing the objectivity of their decisions. The 14-part rules prohibit songs containing obscene expressions; descriptions of sex, murder or assault; and too many slang words, among others, according to the ministry in charge of protecting minors. As for lyrics containing such words as "alcohol" or "tobacco," the government will only regulate songs "that are directly and concretely meant to encourage drinking or smoking" or "that give detailed descriptions of, justify or beautify violent, sexual or aberrant behaviors that happen subsequent to drinking," according to the new rules. The ministry said it gathered opinions from Korean language scholars, school teachers, parents and music industry figures to set up the rules. It had the first censoring meeting on Tuesday last week after the new rules were made and deemed 35 K-pop songs as materials harmful to minors, officials said. But there were no cases declared harmful during the meeting due to lyrics related to drinking or smoking, they added. By law, music albums classified as being "harmful" also cannot be aired on television and radio before 10 p.m. every night.

V. Conclusion - Don't write anything here yet.

Rough Draft Jack Duval & Tristan Blue Altman Pre AP Language Arts 7th December 12, 2011

When this country was founded we were promised the freedom of speech in the bill of rights by our founding fathers, so why should freedom of speech be so loosely interpreted today? Why should music be treated any differently than speech, after all it is expressing oneself through the art of music. Some artists feel so offended by the harsh censorship laws being enforced that they refuse to make a clean version of their song such as in "The Coup's "Repo Man" which will never make it into the clean version of songs, though has been requested by many. Is it fair that we should be under the oppression of censorship when we were promised a land of the free? Its important to exercise our rights and remember that they still exist. This is the very reason why music should not be censored.

We should not censor music because we are silencing the artist of their emotions. Some artists have younger people who look up to them as role models and the singer's appearance or act may not be appropiate with most ages, but it's the artist's choice on how they choose to appeal to their audience. Though times have changed and this generation has obviously become much more vulgar and open about innappropiate subjects, our rights still have not changed. So why should the FCC be able to toss around our God given right of speech like some sort of play toy? Donny Osmond said on his radio show "I'm all for freedom of speech and against any form of censorship, but all I know is that I'm a parent and I'm upset about this. Unlike 20 years ago, in today's modern, viral world in which content becomes instantaneously available irrespective of age, I wonder whether the music industry might need to rethink its marketing policies with regard to making an explicit music video containing profanity, sexual exploitation, nudity, and graphic violence available to anyone with Internet access. I wouldn't want my child to watch this video. Would you? Should these two extremely gifted female role models for millions of young girls, maybe, have given a little more thought to the effect it might have on their core audience?" While it is true that this was very racy, an artist has all the same freedoms as any other person. The core audience may be affected but the artist does have the God given right of speech. So why waste it with constant "bleeps" over the original material and continue to bash the artist's work by covering it up from the public?

Restricting lyrics is restricting the songwriter of their full musical potential. Most musicians see music as a vehicle to get their point of view out and be active in current political problems. Some are even being censored for standing against the government. Before we know it, we are nothing but communists silencing anybody who dares speak against the government as we slowly turn into cowards and forget our rights. In Green Days hit song "American Idiot" they sing about how corrupt and paranoid the government is and even mention the homophobic word "faggot." While this is not considered proper language, it's very ironic that they meant this in the most sarcastic way possible. According the "Free Expression Policy Project," the word "Faggot" or "Fag" is not even a word. So why should something that is not even a word be considered a bad one and further be censored on countless radio stations?

In summary, music is an outlet for expression and thoughts on today's problems and political troubles. Censoring of these expressions is silencing the mouths of musicians with an "explicit" touch to their music. It is not acceptable to strip us of our rights we so valiantly fought to gain two centuries ago. The FCC is unconstitutional in their harsh censorship and their removal of the freedom of speech from thousands of inspiring artists. This is why music should not be censored, because it is unconstitutional and unfair to the artist and their work.

Tristan Blue, Jack Duval Pre-AP Language Arts 7 Altman 14 December 2011 Censoring of the Arts When this country was founded we were promised the freedom of speech in the bill of rights by our founding fathers, so why is freedom of speech so loosely interpreted today? Why should music be treated any differently than speech, after all it is expressing oneself through the art of music. Some artists feel so offended by the harsh censorship laws being enforced that they refuse to make a clean version of their song such as in "The Coup’s "Repo Man" which will never make it into the clean version of songs, though has been requested by many. Is it fair that we should be under the oppression of censorship when we were promised a land of the free? It’s important to exercise our rights and remember that they still exist. This is the very reason why music should not be censored. We should not censor music because we are silencing the artist of their emotions. Some artists have younger people who look up to them as role models and the singer's appearance or act may not be appropriate with most ages, but it’s the artist's choice on how they choose to appeal to their audience. Though times have changed and this generation has obviously become much more vulgar and open about inappropriate subjects, our rights still have not changed. So why should the FCC be able to toss around our God given right of speech like some sort of playboy? Donny Osmond said on his radio show "I'm all for freedom of speech and against any form of censorship, but all I know is that I'm a parent and I'm upset about this. Unlike 20 years ago, in today's modern, viral world in which content becomes instantaneously available irrespective of age, I wonder whether the music industry might need to rethink its marketing policies with regard to making an explicit music video containing profanity, sexual exploitation, nudity, and graphic violence available to anyone with Internet access. I wouldn't want my child to watch this video. Would you? Should these two extremely gifted female role models for millions of young girls, maybe, have given a little more thought to the effect it might have on their core audience?" (Osmond) While it is true that this was very racy, an artist has all the same freedoms as any other person. The core audience may be affected but the artist does have the God given right of speech. So why waste it with constant "bleeps" over the original material and continue to bash the artist's work by covering it up from the public? Restricting lyrics is restricting the songwriter of their full musical potential. Most musicians see music as a vehicle to get their point of view out and be active in current political problems. Some are even being censored for standing against the government. Before we know it, we are nothing but communists silencing anybody who dares speak against the government as we slowly turn into cowards and forget our rights. In Green Days hit song "American Idiot" they sing about how corrupt and paranoid the government is and even mention the homophobic word "faggot." While this is not considered proper language, it’s very ironic that they meant this in the most sarcastic way possible. According to the "Free Expression Policy Project," the word "Faggot" or "Fag" is not even a word. So why should something that is not even a word be considered a bad one and further be censored on countless radio stations? In summary, music is an outlet for expression and thoughts on today's problems and political troubles. Censoring of these expressions is silencing the mouths of musicians with an "explicit" touch to their music. It is not acceptable to strip us of our rights we so valiantly fought to gain two centuries ago. The FCC is unconstitutional in their harsh censorship and their removal of the freedom of speech from thousands of inspiring artists. This is why music should not be censored, because it is unconstitutional and unfair to the artist and their work.