Jack Bauer's Days are Numbered?: FCC May Regulate Violence on Television
 

The FCC has always regulated the use of profanity and nudity in television broadcasts and now they are thinking about regulating the depiction of violence of TV (at least during hours when children may be watching).

[url]http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/TV/02/16/tvviolence.ap/index.html[/url]

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And here we go....


Hopefully Jack will just stop the FCC, the hell with Fayette

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so no more running power drills into people's backs on tv! What is America coming too??????

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Ugh. Just another example of the gov't abusing its power. What's next, censoring what people say in musical lyrics? Oh wait...

A good video which is pretty relevant:
[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ISil7IHzxc]YouTube - Frank Zappa on Crossfire[/url]

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How hilarious would it be if they had some promo for 24 that had Kiefer Sutherland showing up at FCC headquarters, shotguns blazing and totally blow a ridiculously fake looking hole in the head of the FCC.

God, I would love that.

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I will have to say that turning on the TV with young children in the home is getting harder and harder every day. With that said I do not think this is a good idea as I can decide what should or should not be seen by my children. If they want a rating system that would be ok (I think thay may already have one) or if they wanted to encourage stations to have the violence on a latter time would be ok with me.

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[quote=firstdown;278058]I will have to say that turning on the TV with young children in the home is getting harder and harder every day. With that said I do not think this is a good idea as I can decide what should or should not be seen by my children. If they want a rating system that would be ok (I think thay may already have one) or if they wanted to encourage stations to have the violence on a latter time would be ok with me.[/quote]

No kidding. I am of the same school of thought. Plus, with so many programming options you can select which programs are suitable for kids to watch. Isn't there something like V-chip technology that allows you to filter out programs that have violence, langiage, etc?

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I myself am for it,I'm far from being a prude but the morals of this country are at an all time low and that shit they get away with on tv nowadays is terrible,and I'm talking abc,nbc,cbs,not cable.when i was growing up i had brady bunch and partridge family in primetime,now you get a guy getting a handjob at a massage parlor in the opening scene{new abc show,in case of emergency}

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What's next, you won't be able to say **** on the Warpath?





j/k

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****!!!!!!! you can't!

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fcuk!

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haaha

f uck

oppss.....i'm so bad

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[QUOTE=firstdown;278058]I will have to say that turning on the TV with young children in the home is getting harder and harder every day.[/QUOTE]
You're right about that, even the commercials can be pretty bad. My family has to change the channel constantly when shows like American Idol or Survivor cut to commercial because the spots for shows like CSI or 24 or whatever show so much of the show that it gives her nightmares.
At the same time, I love cable shows like Deadwood, Dexter, and Rome because they can be grittier because of the station that they're on. Then again, these shows don't have ads that play during programs aimed at families.
We need some kind of a happy median on TV, but some people are just too sensitive to the simplest stuff while other people don't seem to care what their kids see.

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You can't legislate morality. If your kids don't see it on TV you can bet your ass they are going to see and hear it in the real world (school mostly). Plus, you have parental control capabilities these days so use it to lock your kids out of mature shows. I do agree though that the commercials are getting more provocative and need to be curbed.

p.s. That was an awesome clip of cross fire. Man has the quality of Crossfire degraded over the years.

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We have the channel blocker set up on all 4 tv's in the house. It works great. But as I do agree that some of the stuff on at 'family' hours is getting out of control, Im more in favor of regulating the [I]PARENTS![/I]

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There has been talk of allowing FCC regulation of cable television too.

Bay Buchanon (sister of Pat) was on CNN debating in favor of it.

Enjoy HBO while it lasts.

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why is our TV regulatures so stupid

ive got an idea, dont let your dumb ass kids watch violent shows

in other countries they have nudity and blood and gore. their kids turned out alright.

**** that shit


i'm writing a letter!!!



hahahahahahahahahahah but that seriously blows

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[QUOTE=Beemnseven;278172]There has been talk of allowing FCC regulation of cable television too.

Bay Buchanon (sister of Pat) was on CNN debating in favor of it.

Enjoy HBO while it lasts.[/QUOTE]

I would think that HBO would be set since it's a seperate pay channel.

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[QUOTE=ArtMonkDrillz;278201]I would think that HBO would be set since it's a seperate pay channel.[/QUOTE]


You would think.

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It should be up to the parent to step in and not let their children watch violent or adult themed shows. I am sure that the goverment has bigger problems to worry about than if little Johnny or little Suzy are watching 24, CSI or what not. The parent should be WATCHING and PAYING ATTENTION to their children and KNOW what their children are doing.

I agree with Saden if our children are not seeing it on TV they are probably hearing about it at school. I just guess that is where the parents need to step in and teach their children better...

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[QUOTE=ArtMonkDrillz;278201]I would think that HBO would be set since it's a seperate pay channel.[/QUOTE]

Unfortunately not. The FCC has been considering it for quite some time and, constitutionally, there is little preventing the FCC from regulating it.

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F... the FCC.

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[QUOTE=Sheriff Gonna Getcha;278232]Unfortunately not. The FCC has been considering it for quite some time and, constitutionally, there is little preventing the FCC from regulating it.[/QUOTE]
Well that's pretty F'ing stupid.

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Does this mean the days of seeing an anvil from the sky and landing on Wile E. Coyote could soon be over?

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As I read through the post after mine it seems as the younger posters who probably do not have kids are more against regulation than the older posters who probably have kids. Like I said earlier I'm against regulating TV more than is currently being done. I do think that there needs to be and believe there is a market for more family friendly TV shows. Its funny because the family movies consitantly draw a much larger crowds than the R rated movies. I think there is a lack of talent on TV and movies and thats why they have to result to using sex and violance to attract an audience. They don't have the talent to make us laugh without it.

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and Im all for funny, racy commercials, but they have to be on after 'family hours'. I think thats where a bigger problem is. Some of the commercials are getting over the top on prime time. Again I dont have a problem with them, but what good does a channel or rating blocker do if the commercial is geared to adults?

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The FCC can take their conservative bullshit and shove it up their own asses. It's called a Vchip parents. If you care soo much about what you child is watching take the initiative of screening out shows that are violent. Nowadays most people have dish or digital cable, which is also another way parents can control what their child watches.

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PBS is your friend. They have lots of kids shows and a variety of educational programs. Why just past weekend I was watching a Spanish animated show for no apparent reason. It was entertaining even though I didn't understand a single word :)

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[quote=TAFKAS;278356]Does this mean the days of seeing an anvil from the sky and landing on Wile E. Coyote could soon be over?[/quote]


You know, in all seriousness, thats not even funny. My 3 year old just dropped an anvil on another kids head off of a 400 foot cliff the other day and that kids head was flat until he blew on his thumb to re-inflate it...

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[QUOTE=canthetuna;279146]You know, in all seriousness, thats not even funny. My 3 year old just dropped an anvil on another kids head off of a 400 foot cliff the other day and that kids head was flat until he blew on his thumb to re-inflate it...[/QUOTE]

Damn. I'm sorry man. I was out of line. I shall Meep Meep no more...

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[quote=canthetuna;279146]You know, in all seriousness, thats not even funny. My 3 year old just dropped an anvil on another kids head off of a 400 foot cliff the other day and that kids head was flat until he blew on his thumb to re-inflate it...[/quote]

haha, oh man kids these days watch the crappiest cartoons. They have nothing on the classics.