FCC Crackdown Looming
With a two year old and a ten year old often under my care, I'm concerned with what they see on the television. Hopefully growing older makes you more responsible. I'm afraid of what the FCC would do with new powers to regulate TV violence. Ever since the Janet Jackson titty fiasco, we've thrown the baby out with the bathwater.
Some shows require a certain amount of violence as part of their storytelling. NBC's "The Black Donnellys" (now all but canceled) uses violence to tell it's gritty story of four Irish brothers in NYC. The violence is appropriate to the story.
There are so many choices for kids today. So many channels for children and so many ways of controlling what they see.
As Bill Maher says, everything isn't about "the children". Do I have to watch sanitized, Washington censored TV just because Cletus is a dumbass parent and won't control what his child watches?
How much nanny government do we want?
Some shows require a certain amount of violence as part of their storytelling. NBC's "The Black Donnellys" (now all but canceled) uses violence to tell it's gritty story of four Irish brothers in NYC. The violence is appropriate to the story.
There are so many choices for kids today. So many channels for children and so many ways of controlling what they see.
As Bill Maher says, everything isn't about "the children". Do I have to watch sanitized, Washington censored TV just because Cletus is a dumbass parent and won't control what his child watches?
How much nanny government do we want?
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