Cable Indecency & Saber Rattling
David blog'd a few weeks ago on Parents wanting gov't out of the thier TV choices..I think this topic is important enough to warrant a bit more airtime. Plus, I caught up with some of my TIVO'd John Stewart Shows last night and he talked about. If it is good enough for John, it is good enough for me.
I expect most people are up-to-date on the issue so I would like to simply highlight the parallel to the steroid issue from Baseball and the need for gaming ratings as discussed by Mr. Doug Lowenstein in our class. In both cases, Congress got their teeth into the issue and either held hearings or threatened to. Because nobody wanted the gov't to be setting their policies, the groups acted on their own. So with that logic, the article David commented on indicating that citizens do not want the gov't setting rules for content is perfectly positioned for Congress to act. In all likelihood, the cable bodies would never let Congress get that far, they'll act on their own. So Congress gets to look effective without passing legislation. This can be spun in either direction in later stumping. "We are a hands off body" or "we take action", they both work. So let the saber rattling begin.
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