Senator: Decency Rules Should Apply Pay TV, Radio

Reuters ^ | March 1, 2005 | Reuters

[af_vet_rr]

No one is forcing me to subscribe to XM, however neither Sirius nor XM are paragons of decency. So if I want to listen to any broadcast in the vast FM voids in which I am wont to travel it will be XM

There is this new technology, they call it an "MP3 Player". I've heard it plays the music you want, when you want.

There is a public cost to the private transactions people make with programming suppliers, which results in aggregate in pervasive cultural degredation. The steadily declining standards of decency can only be solved in aggregate, hopefully by broadcast associations, but in the last extremity by Congress.

And here I thought you were a Conservative.

You want to know why we have "steadily declining standards of decency"? I'll tell you why - poor parenting. It has nothing to do with Howard Sterns saying the f-word, it has nothing to do with Janet Jackson's breast.

It has everything to do with the pathetic job that so many parents in this country are doing, in raising their children.

Blaming TV or radio, that's a cop-out in the extreme. That's wanting to pretend that every parent is a great parent, and that it's that it's a bunch of electronic devices corrupting their children.

My friend, you can have Congress intrude even more into our lives, and tell us even more what we can or can't watch or listen to, but it won't stop or reverse this country's moral decay. Only good parenting can do that.

[yellowdoghunter]

I didn't know Sunday School was bad....learn something new everyday.

[ReignOfError]

Protecting children is never wrong. Somewhere along the way though, your "right" trumps what is best for children.

If you're going to post bumper-sticker non-sequiturs instead of actually arguing, I won't waste any more time on you.