Could someone please explain to me why this is a story?

[witherwings]

Jeremy Paxman apologises for swearing on Newsnight

Broadcaster Jeremy Paxman apologised during Newsnight on Monday night after he used a swearword in the programme.

The presenter read quotes from Andrew Rawnsley's book, The End of the Party, which has controversially accused Prime Minister Gordon Brown of bullying.Seconds after reading the

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[omniguy]

The BBC is under fire from so many sides now they are basically scared of their own shadow. Anything deemed even mildly offensive by the "moral majority" is a total no-no.

I've heard tell they now have to get sign-off on any show where they want to say "fuck". "Cunt" is right out.

A depressing state of affairs that can only get worse under the next administration who'll want to return us to "Watch with Mother" and "Women: Don't Drive"... or was that a Harry Enfield sketch?

[witherwings]

Looks like a public information film to me...

;)

[papilio_luna]

All the people who piss and moan about the BBC and want to defang it and defund it need to come over here and watch our PBS, Clockwork Orange-style, for a week. This is your future. Except even worse because right now 75% of everything worth watching on PBS originates from the BBC.

[paulnolan]

PBS gave the world Sesame Street though, right? It can't be that bad, can it?

[paulnolan]

Linking this Charlie Brooker article as it seems sorta relevant

Also, fuck you, Paxo's editor. He has nothing to apologise for.

[witherwings]

Charlie Brooker++

Also, fuck you, Paxo's editor. He has nothing to apologise for.

This!

[roboplege]

LOVEHIMLOVEHIMLOVEHIM

"A child who idolised the tabloids would grow up to be a ­sanctimonious, flip-flopping, phone-tapping Peeping Tom who thinks puns are hilarious and spends half its life desperately ­rooting through bins for a ­living. If I had a child like that, I'd divorce it. Or kill it. Whichever proved cheapest."

[orwellian_trash]

Its Newsnight, for God's sake, not Newsround. The context the word was used was justifiable and relevant to the story; it's not like Paxo banged his knee on the coffee table and then bellowed the word into the camera like an enraged elephant seal.

[witherwings]

This comment made me actually LOL.

[paulnolan]

Although that would also be justifiable by way of being funny. C:

[red_pill]

mabby not

but i might pay to see this.

[red_pill]

you should have linked to tv tropes. its more evil that way.

on the subject of paxman

[witherwings]

I love this clip so fucking much. Someone should make the forecasts into an icon or something.

As for TV Tropes - which would you suggest fits here? Also, fuck you for bringing TV Tropes into it.

[red_pill]

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Watershed

spread the evil

[draperyfalls]

I love Paxman's snarky, bitter, curmudgeonly ass

[witherwings]

I'm not sure Newsnight could ever be the same without him.