The Coming Fight Over TV Violence

gollum123 writes "Time reports the guardians of decency are warning about new trouble, with a capital T, which rhymes with V, which stands for violence. The Parents Television Council (PTC), the group at the vanguard of the TV-sex wars, has lately focused on prime-time blood: power-tool torture on 24, serial killing on Criminal Minds, vivisection on Heroes. And the FCC has prepared a draft report suggesting that Congress authorize it to regulate broadcast violence, as it now does obscenity, and possibly force cable companies to let subscribers opt out of paying for channels that run brutal content. In short, torture is the new sex. Jack Bauer is the new Janet Jackson."

Comments

How will the left behave?

[giorgiofr]

I'm curious. On the one hand they claim to be defenders of freedom (freedom of speech too, one would suppose). On the other hand they keep condemning the use of torture. Let's see if they put their money where their mouth is and allow unregulated violence, torture, unregulated *everything* on TV. That's freedom. Anything else is hypocracy.
(Oh and please, right wing, the deregulation bit applies to you too)