ESPN.com is no longer a family Web site
Anyone remember when ESPN.com tumbled into an MTV-level joke show?
Just as previous episodes, ESPN.com has featured “Mayne Street” on the front page of its Web site — a page that happens to be one of the most popular on the whole Internet frontier. Popular, meaning a vast number of people log on — most of which from a diverse set of demographics. Throughout the world, males, females, young and old humans check the .com a few times per day. Millions of them.
Chances are, there are a few — especially in today’s freakishly young era of internet addicts — are under the age of 13. They’re probably at their respective elementary school libraries right now, logging onto ESPN.com after finishing up science project research about the planets. (WTF is Pluto?)
So it comes off as a little tasteless that the Worldwide Leader would put “Mayne Street,” a self-labeled production that includes mature language not suited for all audiences, in incredibly easy access of everyone.
Today’s release of Episode 10 features not only a reference to a shuttlecock — most likely the new unintentionally-hysterical-yet-still-harmless name-calling word of choice for those elementary kids — but ESPN censors out the word “fuck” several times.
It’s one of those bleeps that just catches the middle “uh” syllable of the word “fuck” making it extremely easy to figure out the curse word of choice.
To think that a family friendly company like Disney — you know, Mickey Mouse and Goofy — owns this Web site just makes that a little more bizarre.
Can’t wait for the self-inflicted reality show between T.O., Jason Witten and Chris Mortensen. Now that’s a trashy webisodes.
Daffy is Warner Bros. Donald is the waterfowl you’re looking for.
Which syllable in “fuck” is the middle one again?
Wow. So a piece of badminton equipment and some bleeps warrant this diatribe? Methinks it’s just a slow news day.
i, for one, am absolutely shocked that a corporation whose affiliated networks run such upstanding and morally upright shows as “desperate housewives” and “grey’s anatomy” — not to mention all of the fine programming found on the soap network — would have the audacity to allow our children to hear two of the three syllables in “fuck” while also exploiting the corrosive innuendo of the word “shuttlecock.”
and to think they did it on the internet, the last bastion of good taste; where kids can go to get away from all the smut, poor language, and violence found in the rest of the media universe–it just boggles the mind.
i’m glad this has been brought to our attention so that we may take action before it’s too late. if left unchecked, the next thing you know, they’ll have hip-hop artists with gun and drug charges writing blogs for the site, include prolonged footage of scantily-clad cheerleaders during their college football coverage, or perhaps even offer podcasts with dirty words in them! i tell you, my testicles are crawling up into my stomach in fear.
This show is so desperate and awful. Kenny Mayne is the guy with the red stapler in Office Space.
How is that any worse than being able to hear even more offensive language watching your average NFL game?
You have to be kidding me that your average teenager a) doesn’t already know every swear in the book and b) wouldn’t turn this off after about ten seconds because it didn’t feature nearly naked women or someone getting knocked unconcious?
Reezy no longer shits with his pants off. Good thing he carries around a bag of douches.
Wow…ESPN really cannot win.
ESPN generally drives me insane. The stories they drive are generally stories made because they decide to make them. It’s awful.
But then they have the nuts to put Mayne Street on, which is hilarious…and yet, people kill them for that, too.
We should embrace the one funny and original thing ESPN puts out, not complain about some “bleeps.”
And if you don’t get the irony that Mayne is going for with the shuttlecock jokes, well…I suppose that basically explains this whiny post.
Since when does ESPN have to be G-rated, they put up Sean Avery’s comments didn’t they?
“To think that a family friendly company like Disney — you know, Mickey Mouse and Goofy — owns this Web site just makes that a little more bizarre.”
Other things Disney owns: the entire Miramax catalog, including,
- Priest
- Dogma
- Pulp Fiction
- Kill Bill
- Scary Movie 4
- Hellraiser: Inferno
- Hellraiser: Deader
- Dracula III: Legacy
- Full Frontal
So does before you join the sports blogosphere are you required to sign some sort of form that requires you to bitch about anything and everything ESPN.com does?