Mass Media | Television Ratings Will Protect Children From Violence

The entire television community has banded together—for the first time—to offer guidelines to parents so they can better monitor their young children’s TV watching. The guidelines are in effect now. The U.S. is the only nation to implement a parental TV assistance plan.

Yet in spite of this extraordinary, totally voluntary effort, there have been savage attacks on the guidelines by politicians and newspaper editorials. It is odd that these harsh criticisms were issued before the guidelines were completed and publicly declared.

What are the critics complaining about?...

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