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

[firstdown]

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.

[724Skinsfan]

Originally Posted by firstdown

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.

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?

[ArtMonkDrillz]

Originally Posted by firstdown

I will have to say that turning on the TV with young children in the home is getting harder and harder every day.

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.