Parents television and media council: Bleap button is like a super swearer. The p t c believes t v in radio should be a family friendly haven where content is appropriate for everyone. In tim's mind, the bleep button is kind of like cheating. If the intention is to shock, thenhe put the loud bleep in there. And that's exactly what they're doing. Theyre oing it for effect. This is no earnest effort to to make sure that the ait metip doesn't violate indecency standards. This is a way to almost do the opposite your you're doing it intensely to suggest and to provoke. You're almost adding it back in and adding
There's a particular one-kilohertz tone that is universally understood to be covering up inappropriate words on radio and TV. But there are other options, too, like silence -- so why did this particular *bleep* sound become ubiquitous?
Bleep!