Television Executives Rethink Ratings System

[SOURCE: Los Angeles Times, AUTHOR: Jube Shiver Jr]
Former Motion Picture Association of America President Jack Valenti helped to organize a meeting Monday of television and cable executives concerned about the attention Washington policy makers are giving programming containing sex, violence and profanity. The meeting followed the Open Forum on Decency last week in Washington in which Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) threatened to pass legislation to crack down on TV indecency unless the industry policed itself better. One participant, who declined to be identified because participants promised not to talk about the meeting publicly, called it a "spirited discussion" among media executives with "very different views." Apparently, participants discussed ways to improve the 10 yr-old V-Chip rating system, but some executives at the meeting expressed concern that tinkering with the ratings system might produce further confusion among parents about how to use the content-blocking technology.
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