I'd like to challenge these producers to develop a sitcom without this stuff. I know quite a few people, and I don't know many who sit around telling dirty jokes all the time. Decent applied to the recording industry would mean not recording material that promotes violence against women or police officers or anyone else. Here again, music doesn't need to contain sexually explicit or violent lyrics to sell records. It doesn't need to glorify hate and intolerance to be commercial.
Music only has to be memorable and evoke emotions and be poetic.
Here again, I see no compelling proof that vulgarity sells CDs. Decent on the radio is easy. For the last 10 years or so, radio has been in a race to see who can say the most outrageous things and get away with them. Radio's highest-paid air personalities are the shock jocks who delight in broadcasting material that would normally be found in the likes of Hustler magazine. Like little schoolboys who've learned the latest dirty word, they scatter obscenity and vulgarity on our airwaves with no concern for who they're reaching.