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TV Watch Wed, Mar 1, 2006 at 1:10 PM
Reply-To: jim@televisionwatch.org
To: Jonathan Wisniewski
According to news reports in the Associated Press and Reuters, the Federal Communications Commission is preparing to rule on approximately 40 moments of broadcast television that activist groups claim violate broadcast standards.
How did we get to this point? The way the system works today is that just one person can make a complaint against a broadcast and the government has to follow up and investigate what was aired. Activist groups have aggravated this system by flooding the FCC with email complaints. They want to manufacture a public outcry to pressure the government into re-writing broadcast standards that fit their narrow definitions of quality. And activist groups have discouraged parents from using parental controls by insisting that they are useless.
Supporters of TV Watch know the facts. Parents have the tools and information they need to make decisions about what their family watches on TV and to enforce those decisions. Parental controls are as easy to use as any of your other electronic household appliances-maybe even easier. And the majority of adults in our country believe that the best way to control what children see on TV is through parental involvement-not government regulation.
This week, TV Watch is setting the record straight about the facts in this debate and the organizations pushing for increased government control.
HOW A VOCAL MINORITY IS TRYING TO CHANGE TV FOR EVERYONE
The vast majority of individuals across the country prefer to decide for themselves what they watch on television. But a vocal minority is pushing for more government control. These special interest groups abuse the complaint process, knowing that by filing one single complaint they can force the federal government to begin investigating a moment of broadcast television. If they are successful, fewer people than it takes to field a baseball team can change what we all see on TV.
Special interest groups manipulate the FCC complaint process
* According to an FCC analysis obtained by Mediaweek , over 99 percent of indecency complaints filed before the FCC in 2003 came from a single interest group, the Parents Television Council (PTC).
* In February 2004, a PTC campaign launched against one TV episode accounted for 88 percent of the total complaints the FCC received that month.
What is the PTC?
The Parents Television Council (PTC) is an activist group that pushes the government to enforce their personal television preferences on all Americans.
* In recent years, the PTC has asked the government to penalize broadcasters for such shows as: The Simpsons, CSI, The Amazing Race, NYPD Blue, Futurama, American Idol, Survivor, Frasier, Dawson’s Creek, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, Scrubs, Gilmore Girls, One Tree Hill, Will & Grace, Charmed, King of the Hill and others.
* A review of The Simpsons from the PTC web site: “For The Simpsons the description is ‘not recommended for younger viewers’ - the show ridicules entrepreneurs, religion, educators, and law enforcement officials and has occasional foul language in its dialogue. The cartoon sends a mixed message on parenthood- while the father is a bumbling idiot, the mother is a loving and patient wife and role model.”
* In 2002 the PTC paid $3.5 million in fines when it settled a libel lawsuit filed by the World Wrestling Entertainment, after admitting that it exaggerated the number of companies that pulled ads from the WWE’s program. As part of the settlement, the PTC apologized for misrepresenting the relationship between advertisers and the WWE and misrepresenting their claim that the sponsors had stopped advertising because of the PTC campaign.
About TV Watch
TV Watch was launched in May 2005 as a coalition of individuals and organizations to promote the use of parental controls and to support the views of the majority of Americans who prefer individual control of TV content to increased government regulation. TV Watch consists of 27 prominent individuals and organizations representing more than 4 million Americans.
More information is available at www.televisionwatch.org.
To remove yourself from this mailing, please click here.
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TV Watch Wed, Mar 1, 2006 at 1:10 PM
Reply-To: jim@televisionwatch.org
To: Jonathan Wisniewski
According to news reports in the Associated Press and Reuters, the Federal Communications Commission is preparing to rule on approximately 40 moments of broadcast television that activist groups claim violate broadcast standards.
How did we get to this point? The way the system works today is that just one person can make a complaint against a broadcast and the government has to follow up and investigate what was aired. Activist groups have aggravated this system by flooding the FCC with email complaints. They want to manufacture a public outcry to pressure the government into re-writing broadcast standards that fit their narrow definitions of quality. And activist groups have discouraged parents from using parental controls by insisting that they are useless.
Supporters of TV Watch know the facts. Parents have the tools and information they need to make decisions about what their family watches on TV and to enforce those decisions. Parental controls are as easy to use as any of your other electronic household appliances-maybe even easier. And the majority of adults in our country believe that the best way to control what children see on TV is through parental involvement-not government regulation.
This week, TV Watch is setting the record straight about the facts in this debate and the organizations pushing for increased government control.
HOW A VOCAL MINORITY IS TRYING TO CHANGE TV FOR EVERYONE
The vast majority of individuals across the country prefer to decide for themselves what they watch on television. But a vocal minority is pushing for more government control. These special interest groups abuse the complaint process, knowing that by filing one single complaint they can force the federal government to begin investigating a moment of broadcast television. If they are successful, fewer people than it takes to field a baseball team can change what we all see on TV.
Special interest groups manipulate the FCC complaint process
* According to an FCC analysis obtained by Mediaweek , over 99 percent of indecency complaints filed before the FCC in 2003 came from a single interest group, the Parents Television Council (PTC).
* In February 2004, a PTC campaign launched against one TV episode accounted for 88 percent of the total complaints the FCC received that month.
What is the PTC?
The Parents Television Council (PTC) is an activist group that pushes the government to enforce their personal television preferences on all Americans.
* In recent years, the PTC has asked the government to penalize broadcasters for such shows as: The Simpsons, CSI, The Amazing Race, NYPD Blue, Futurama, American Idol, Survivor, Frasier, Dawson’s Creek, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, Scrubs, Gilmore Girls, One Tree Hill, Will & Grace, Charmed, King of the Hill and others.
* A review of The Simpsons from the PTC web site: “For The Simpsons the description is ‘not recommended for younger viewers’ - the show ridicules entrepreneurs, religion, educators, and law enforcement officials and has occasional foul language in its dialogue. The cartoon sends a mixed message on parenthood- while the father is a bumbling idiot, the mother is a loving and patient wife and role model.”
* In 2002 the PTC paid $3.5 million in fines when it settled a libel lawsuit filed by the World Wrestling Entertainment, after admitting that it exaggerated the number of companies that pulled ads from the WWE’s program. As part of the settlement, the PTC apologized for misrepresenting the relationship between advertisers and the WWE and misrepresenting their claim that the sponsors had stopped advertising because of the PTC campaign.
About TV Watch
TV Watch was launched in May 2005 as a coalition of individuals and organizations to promote the use of parental controls and to support the views of the majority of Americans who prefer individual control of TV content to increased government regulation. TV Watch consists of 27 prominent individuals and organizations representing more than 4 million Americans.
More information is available at www.televisionwatch.org.
To remove yourself from this mailing, please click here.
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