According to "Broadcasting & Cable," an industry publication:
"The parents of three of the 'Big Four' networks -- NBC, Fox and CBS -- have funded a coalition, TV Watch, to push parental content controls over the government crackdown on indecency."
"The coalition said it will push parental controls and personal responsibility over government regulation, either of broadcast or cable, adding that a poll it conducted showed that the vast majority of people would rather occasionally see something that offends them than have the government 'crowding out their personal responsibility and personal choices.'"
"One of the groups the coalition is up against is the Parent's Television Council, which has inundated the FCC with complaints over Janet Jackson and others.
"PTC President Brent Bozell dismissed the coalition as a network-bought hired gun that he says includes groups--he singled out the American Conservative Union and Americans for Tax Reform--that have 'never given a moment's thought to the suffocating sewage coming form the entertainment industry.'"
At one level, I can't help thinking: "well let them knock each other off." But I can't help also hoping that this is an indication of some (tiny as it is) network resistance to the PTC-owned-and-operated FCC. It will be interesting to see how this all shapes the fall schedules to be announced by the networks in two weeks. After all profits are the networks bottom line and there's money in those "Desperate housewives."
Interesting. Interesting.
(Thanks to Wonkette for pointing us toward this possibly significant development)
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in the bit about hte texas bill on cheerleaders it's a bit questionable to describe young women as 'our young girls' as though they are a commodity belonging to these old men.. did anyone else notice the language used as a little distasteful there?
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