Over the years many media productions have shook the market and caused controversy and outrage to the establishment. Although this is common in the music video industry it also applies over the whole media market. For example when famous director Alfred Hitchcock released his legendary 'Psycho' in 1960 the film was almost band due to the opening scene showing a couple having an affair.
Famous channels that host music videos such have MTV have been criticized as over censoring what they show for years. Although censorship in the market has decreased due to gradual changes in the populations attitudes and values, we hear bleeped out words, deemed inappropriate and extreme sexual imagery removed.
Many modern songs today that have words removed or censored include;
-Akons - 'i wanna fuck you' - where the word 'fuck' was changed to 'love'
-Maroon 5 - 'Misery' - where violence is buffered by animated flowers and props such as knifes have been replaced with animations such as ice cream cones etc.
Although censorship has decreased over the years, it is still in place and will always provide a boundary in civilised communities. It is easy to say that censorship has platoed over the last 5-10 years and has hit a boundary that is deemed to be pushing social views of the public. However this could be said in 1970, as it seems the media are always pushing the boundaries of what is acceptable to raise public interest, and make their products have a dangerous element that provides enjoyment for many of it's consumers.
It is important to also point out that the music industry as well as the film industry which are interlinked, now have many more formats in which to distribute their products making it increasingly hard for cencoring powers to limit content. The biggest being the world wide web of course.
Famous channels that host music videos such have MTV have been criticized as over censoring what they show for years. Although censorship in the market has decreased due to gradual changes in the populations attitudes and values, we hear bleeped out words, deemed inappropriate and extreme sexual imagery removed.
Many modern songs today that have words removed or censored include;
-Akons - 'i wanna fuck you' - where the word 'fuck' was changed to 'love'
-Maroon 5 - 'Misery' - where violence is buffered by animated flowers and props such as knifes have been replaced with animations such as ice cream cones etc.
Although censorship has decreased over the years, it is still in place and will always provide a boundary in civilised communities. It is easy to say that censorship has platoed over the last 5-10 years and has hit a boundary that is deemed to be pushing social views of the public. However this could be said in 1970, as it seems the media are always pushing the boundaries of what is acceptable to raise public interest, and make their products have a dangerous element that provides enjoyment for many of it's consumers.
It is important to also point out that the music industry as well as the film industry which are interlinked, now have many more formats in which to distribute their products making it increasingly hard for cencoring powers to limit content. The biggest being the world wide web of course.
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