Posted on 10/19/2005 12:28:50 PM PDT by Mike Bates
Four Fox network programs, led by the comedies "The War at Home," "The Family Guy" and "American Dad," topped a parents group's annual listing of the worst prime-time shows for family viewing.
The Parents Television Council rated two aspirational reality shows, ABC's "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" and NBC's new "Three Wishes," as the best programs for family viewing.
The group's president, L. Brent Bozell, said he was alarmed that the three Fox Sunday night comedies are being marketed as family friendly.
"Families should not be deceived," he said. "The top three worst shows all contain crude and raunchy dialogue with sex-themed jokes and foul language. Even worse is the fact that Hollywood is peddling its filth to families with cartoons."
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
Lots of luck to him, and of course, you too!
LOL
well I wasn't really allowed to watch that show until my mom caught me when I was 12 :)
Then she asked me if I really thought everything they did and were saying to each other was really possible to have a functioning family.
I said no, mainly so she wouldn't tell me to turn it off :)
Pray for W and Our Victorious Troops
Does the opposite exist? Social Conservatives but Fiscal Libs? The Catholic Church maybe?
I certainly have no objection to there being a heads-up list....what I think is silly, is when people rely strictly on a list, before they actually see the program for themselves...And I do think that people do exactly that...they take the word of someone else and substitute it for their own judgement...read the list, view the program, and then make up your mind...the trouble is, too many people skip the 'view the program' part and allow someone elses opinion to be their opinion...
I'm starting to warm up to "Bones". I didn't like the first show because frankly there is no way characters that age are in the jobs they are in. They are ALL young. Just isn't going to happen. But I have given it more time and am starting to like it despite the stupid casting.
I think I saw that show. Did it have the characters occassionally turning towards the camera and addressing it directly? If so, that was "The War at Home", one of the shows that Bozell mentioned. I'd agree that people shouldn't watch it, but my reason for it is that it's a horrible unfunny mess that neither adult or kids should watch.
Pray for W and Our Victorious Troops
Thank you. I have just been talking to my radio host and saying the same thing. Actually, I've been talking to him via my radio and not on the phone. Anyway, the list is to give parents a heads up that they probably want to change the channel just like you said. It's amazing how many folks have personalized this as an attack on them and not as a guide for parents.
Family Guy is one of the funniest shows on television. Having said that, however, the sex jokes and crude references to self-pleasuring and body parts fall flat, aren't funny and are just in plain bad taste. The creators could leave out all the vulgar stuff and still have the funniest show around.
"Rick Santorum has made the point that the collapse of the family structure inevitably leads to government stepping in to help single parents so fiscal conservatives should also be social conservatives to a certain degree."
I'm probably the sort of person he was talking to. I'm a serious fiscal conservative who could have practically written Jim Robinson's description of what this site stands for, if I could write that well.
Even though I am Christian, the social conservatives probably wouldn't claim me because I watch Southpark, play Grand Theft Auto and don't feel empowered to tell other people how they should live except by treating people well and trying to set an example.
My reluctance to legislate morality comes from a strong belief in individual rights and freedoms. God has clearly given each man freedom of choice and the Constitution backs that up.
I get Senator Santorum's point. I feel kinship with social conservatives even when I don't agree with them. What I wish liberals could understand is that true social conservatives are not Fred Phelps but are motivated by the desire to protect and do good. One true social conservative cares more deeply about God, country and doing the right thing than a million Cindy Sheehans.
I have no patience for fiscal conservatives who can't see the good in social conservatives. Our disagreements should be about strategy and priorities rather than tearing each other down.
At the same time, there is a limit to degree to which I will compromise on individual rights and I hope that social conservatives can see that as a disagreement among friends rather than a wedge that must split us in two.
"There are universally accepted decency standards that can and should be applied that don't offend on a religious level. "
First, thank you.
But second, here is a place where we disagree. Whose religion and which interpretation would we use? Jerry Falwell's? The popes? The President's? And what about when a minority wants their religious sensitivities respected? And how would we square any of that with the constitution?
I really think standards need to come from some kind of community consensus and even that consensus needs to to allow for our tradition of tolerance and dissent.
And when they are not using the public airwaves it's hard to justifying anything that isn't obscene.
As a parent, I like getting these warnings. I don't think that TV should be censored, but I like knowing what shows are not appropriate for children.
I love Desparate Housewives and Battlestar Gallactica, but I don't let my kids watch either of those shows.
2005 versions of "Queen for a Day."
Why am I not surprised your a Republican who thinks the Party would be fine if it wasn't for those Holy Rollers. Pretty much sums up the anti-Miers crowd. Fiscal Consevatives and Social Libs.
I remember "Outraged Parent" writing to the paper sbout taking her child to see Marlon Brando in The Godfather, becuses "I thought it was going to be like the TV show"
At the time The Godfather was arguably the heaviest publicized and hyped movie of all time - certainly of the last dozen years.
gee,how could they think that? Just becsuse Brent Bozell orgainzes his minions to write to companies running commercials during the shows demanding exactly that.
It's fantasy, but it's fun!
Noöne can prevent you being morally offended.
Ain't freedom grand?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.