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Hollywood Pledges To Fight Broadcast Indecency Act
By Administrator | April 26, 2006
Hollywood’s Valenti Pledges Avalanche
From http://frc.org
A massive call-in effort to support H.R. 310, the Broadcast Indecency Enforcement Act, lit up the Capitol Switchboard today. To counter this, the former head of the Motion Picture Association of America is pledging an “avalanche” of ads designed to persuade parents that it is your sole responsibility to monitor what your kids watch. In other words, the MPAA wants to continue to pump out the sewage and make you responsible for the cleanup. “We want to tell American parents that they, and they alone, have total power to control every hour of television programming,” says MPAA president Jack Valenti of the $300 million ad campaign he announced. How noble. How empowering for you. And how ridiculous. The Federal Communications Act was passed in 1934 by a Democratic Congress and signed by a Democratic President–Franklin D. Roosevelt. That law gives the federal government the power–and the duty–to police the public airwaves. FRC’s Tom McClusky addressed a press conference this noon in which we and other friendly groups publicly called on Congress to give the FCC the powers necessary to enforce the laws that Congress itself has passed. I doubt that Congress would have passed, or FDR would have signed, a law that allows sleaze merchants to broadcast four-letter words into our homes.
Take Action Now
Senators: Support H.R. 310, the Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act of 2005
You can take action to prevent much of the trash from pouring into your living room. Do what Ellen and I did – get rid of cable (not only trashy, but $55/month) and switch to DishFamily for only $20/month.
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