This past Veteran’s Day, 66 ABC-affiliated tele­vi­sion sta­tions pre­empted ABC’s national broad­cast of Sav­ing Pri­vate Ryan, cit­ing con­cerns of being fined by the FCC for air­ing the F-word.

To be con­sid­ered inde­cent by the FCC, a word such as “fuck” must be used in con­text in ref­er­ence to a sex­ual or excre­tory act. This is pre­cisely why Bono was let off the hook for hav­ing said “really, really fuck­ing bril­liant” on live TV in 2003.

I haven’t seen the movie, but I won­der if it actu­ally fails this test.