Profanity has risen 69 percent over the past five years on broadcast TV, according to a new study by the Parents Television Council (PTC) that compared the first two weeks of the fall television season in 2005 and 2010.
The f-word was bleeped out or muted 11 instances in 2005 — and 276 times in 2010, an increase of 2,409 percent. Shit was bleeped out 11 times in 2005 and 95 times in 2010, up 763 percent, the study reports.
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