Parental Guidance Against Television Violence

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to support or solve the problems associated with censoring violent television programs.
One of the main reasons why government cannot be expected to censor violent television programming is because of the Constitution’s "freedom of expression" clause. Producers of television programming declare that "freedom of expression" and "freedom from censorship" are guaranteed to them by the Constitution. In effect, when the government tries to regulate violence on television, conflict occurs. Since the television producers have rights guaranteed to them by the Constitution, the government becomes a lame duck with no freedom to move in any which way over the debate of television violence. Thus, parents need to take control and not wait on the government to act effectively. By their own efforts, parents must learn how to regulate and censor the violence that their children view on TV.
However, many disagree that parents should be the sole regulators of the violence seen on ...

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come at a very slow and often discouraging pace. If parents want more immediate results, they must find other methods of censoring their child's television viewing.
One such way in which parents could regulate their televisions is by the V-chip. The V-chip was what the President and Congress approved for parental use in order to control the violence their children saw on TV. A V-chip enables parents to screen "out content, particularly violence, that they deem inappropriate for their children's viewing" (Kunkel 624). The V-chip was a good idea until the Television Industry Ratings Implementation Group decided "to employ an age-based advisory system." With this rating ...

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