...GORE AND gunplay persisted on prime-time TV shows right after the Newtown school shooting, according to the Parents Television Council. It looks like the media executives are not willing to change and accept responsibility for their part in the...
...quickly than we might have imagined, too: In a 2010 report exquisitely titled "Habitat for Profanity," the Parents Television Council reported a nearly 70 percent uptick in profanity on broadcast prime-time shows from 2005 to 2010. Use of...
...in which the show's characters sang lightheartedly about Ms. Schiavo's "mashed potato brains."The Parents Television Council has repeatedly warned parents about the profanity, violence and nudity on Family Guy, an adult-themed cartoon...
...order to attract warm bodies to watch. "By the time an average child leaves elementary school," writes the Parents Television Council, citing various studies, "he or she will have witnessed 8,000 murders and over 100,000 other acts of...
...media. There is no "safe" hour when children will not be exposed to depravity in the most visual ways. The Parents Television Council attempts to keep tabs on the worst shows, and to inform us who the sponsors are. If we want change, we must...
...universal existence of parental controls via cable, satellite or the V-chip. In your editorial, you cite the Parents Television Council but fail to mention the group's ongoing lobbying campaigns that are directed at regulators and lawmakers...
...frustrated. "This should have happened a long, long time ago," said L. Brent Bozell, the president of Parents Television Council, an entertainment industry watchdog group. "The House continues to do its job, and the Senate continues...
...the Federal Communications Commission by the Parents Television Council, a watchdog group that frequently complains...chairman, said nothing about the complaints. The Parents Television Council alleged that the programs, which aired between...
...did in the mid-1990s but tend to depict organized religion negatively, a study released Thursday said. The Parents Television Council watched every hour of prime-time on the broadcast networks during the 2003-04 season and logged 2,344...
...director of the Dallas-Fort Worth chapter of the Parents Television Council. "Cheaters," which is filmed across the...Cheaters": http://www.cheaters.com Parents Television Council: http://www.parentstv.org
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