PTC: TV ratings system needs overhaul

Allie Martin - OneNewsNow -

The Parents Television Council (PTC) is calling for change and greater transparency in the TV ratings system. The Federal Communications Commission is currently taking public comments in connection with the Child Safe Viewing Act. During that process, it is inviting comments on the current ratings system -- which it notes more than 80 percent of parents are familiar with, but most do not understand it. In response, the PTC has filed comments detailing how the TV ratings system is flawed.

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It took 30+ years...and it may be short-term

Charlie Butts - OneNewsNow -

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled against indecency on television -- but it may only be temporary. Tuesday's 5-4 decision upheld the Federal Communications Commission's right to charge Fox Television for filthy language -- even a one-word utterance -- that occurs in live broadcasts. But the high court refused to pass judgment on whether the FCC's "fleeting expletives" policy, which was at issue in the case, is in line with First Amendment guarantees of free speech.

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Concerned about offensive language on TV?

Allie Martin - OneNewsNow

The Federal Communications Commission is being deluged with complaints about profanity on network television. The complaints prompted Congress to ask the FCC to look for advanced blocking technologies, including those that can filter language based upon information in closed captioning.

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Leaving the kids to the village idiot

by Erin Manning

Want to try something counter-cultural, try avoiding the TV.

"Um, Mom..." my oldest daughter said worriedly as we sat down. The children had accompanied me on a recent visit to a doctor's office. The office was crowded, and the only place with enough seats for all of us was directly below a large screen TV, set to an all-news channel. Words like "assault," "stabbing death," and "arrested for possession of child pornography" blared out, repeating every so many minutes during our hour and a half wait. . .

I think about it now, though. And as flat screen technology has started to make television sets a common nuisance in stores, restaurants, doctor's offices, car repair shops, and many other places, more and more parents are having to deal with the consequences of this latest cultural intrusion.
When Hillary Clinton said that it took a village to raise a child, many conservatives howled at the notion. And rightly so, if by "village" is meant "increasingly socialist nanny-state," and if by "raise" is meant "usurp familial function and take over the role of the parents," which is what many were certain Mrs. Clinton did, indeed, mean by her words.

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