June 26, 2007
Regulating TV Violence Is Not Government's Job
The American Civil Liberties Union told Congress Tuesday to stay out of the content-control business, saying that is the parents' job, reports Broadcasting & Cable.
The group said it supported industry or government-sponsored media literacy education, but that "government-imposed standards for television violence would threaten core American values: the right to a free and open media, the right to free speech and the right of parents to control the upbringing of their children."
In a related article, Fox Broadcasting Entertainment President Peter Liguori says that he is just as concerned about societal violence as Congress, but that no causal link has been established between real violence and TV violence.
"Without a causal link," he says "we cannot justify imposing content limits on the media."
That was the message Liguori was going to deliver to Congress Tuesday morning at a hearing on TV violence scheduled in the Senate Commerce Committee.
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