The National Scene - Wednesday, September 17, 2008 9:20 - 0 Comments

It’s past time to clean up television programming

It has been reported that children between the ages of 13 and 17 spend an average of 33.35 days a year in front of a television or movie screen. These numbers come from a study by IMMI data research organization. For this reason, it’s extremely important to control what is being shown on television screens. For the last several years, TV’s broadcast networks have been engaged in a slow and subtle campaign against laws requiring decency on the public airwaves. First, they went to court claiming the “right” to air profanity — even the “f-word” — any time they want, without restriction. Then they claimed that a program showing a naked woman getting into a shower in front of a child wasn’t “indecent.” And then they said that Janet Jackson’s breast-baring striptease during the 2004 Super Bowl wasn’t indecent.

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