Essay Archive - Television Regulation: Government vs. Parents
Television Regulation: Government vs. Parents
The regulation of children's television programming has been a hot
topic over the last couple of years. There was a segment on the television
show, “20/20”, September 27, 1996 entitled “Addicted to the Tube” with John
Stossel as the reporter. Mr. Stossel relayed a statistic which stated that
children watch on the average twenty hours of television a week, which is
about three hours a day.
The program showed scenes of children sitting on a couch staring at
the television set with blank stares compl....
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