The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has ruled that blurted swear words on TV should not be against FCC rules [WaPo]. The major example here is when Bono won an award a few years back and said, "This is really really fucking brilliant." At first the FCC said the "fleeting" expletive was okay because it didn't really refer to sex, but then they changed their minds and decided that it wasn't okay, and that it did refer to sex. Now the Appeals Court said that's silly. There's a good chance the FCC is going to bump this up to the Supreme Court. Here's Ars Technica's take. Here's the full text of the decision.
And yes, I'm mentioning this just to get a chance to swear in my post title and claim that it's for journalistic reasons. :P No, actually, I've been following this. I blogged about the Bono thing a while back.