American broadcast censors protect racial slurs while censoring sexual language

Evidence

A Ted Koppel “Nightline” special on the 1950s selftaping by Louis Armstrong of his musings about contemporary American life FCC-bleeped all the usual expletives (“shit,” “fuck”) from the recorded language. Armstrong’s repeated use of “nigger,” in pointed and painful contrast, remained uncensored. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 195

Categorization

• SEED: A strong example for an essay on the implicit hierarchy in media censorship: which words are deemed too dangerous to air versus which are deemed safe.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 195
• XREF: connects to: Broadcast censorship norms permitted anti-black and anti-Asian slurs but bleeped profanity — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 195