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Thursday, April 26, 2007

FCC: one step closer to your living room.

Or your mobile. Or online. Or wherever the hell it is you watch TV now. According to Drudge, Big Brother the FCC has come to the conclusion the V-Chip isn’t working, and that parents need more tools to help keep TV violence away from kids. No. No they don’t. Parents have all the tool(s) they need right now. In deference to Alec Baldwin’s parenting rant and the current PC daze we find ourselves in, it’s called “What the hell are you watching? TURN THAT OFF!” Now, again, if the FCC wants to do something useful?

Regulate the audio levels of all programming.

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Posted 2:03 AM

1 comment:

Emily said...

You raise some good points in your post. Here are some facts that you might find interesting. An overwhelming majority of Americans (91%) object to government deciding what they are able to watch on television. When activists talk about protecting children instead of parents—here’s what they’re talking about: sixty-eight percent of the country’s 110 million television-viewing households do not include children under age 18 and households with children have different challenges to face due to the varying ages of kids within each family. Currently, there are 11 million households with children age 6-11, 15 million households with children age 0-5 and 9 million households with children 12-17.

TV has come a long way from the days of three channels and rabbit ears antennas. Today’s TV audiences are putting to use broadband, DVRs, TV video on demand, iPods and cell phones to greatly expand their choices about what, when, where and how to watch TV. New technology means consumers have more selection than ever and more control than ever over what they see on TV. We all have more choices and parents have more tools to ensure their kids only see what’s right for them. Let’s let parents decide—not government, for all of us.

There is more information to be found at www.TelevisionWatch.org

4/26/2007 3:12 PM

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