If you haven't signed up for the email alerts from the Parents Television Council, I suggest you do. I recently did and have been very impressed with their motivation to clean up the television. Here is part of today's email alert:
Media Quote of the Week:
"In our personal lives and in our communities, we can encounter a hostility, something dangerous; a poison which threatens to corrode what is good...[such as] the exaltation of violence and sexual degradation, often presented through television and the internet as entertainment. I ask myself, could anyone standing face to face with people who actually do suffer violence and sexual exploitation 'explain' that these tragedies, portrayed in virtual form, are considered merely 'entertainment'?" -- Pope Benedict XVI, speaking at World Youth Day, Sydney, Australia (Vatican.va, July 17, 2008)
Statistic of the Week:
According to a 2007 Yankelovich poll, 80% of parents think children are being exposed to too much sexual content on TV. (AdAge.com, June 19, 2008)
My thought- If 80% of parents think this, then where is everybody? With a grassroots effort, we can change this.
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