The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood further urged the MPAA...
The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood further urged the MPAA to prohibit the marketing of violent PG-13 movies to young children by starting a letter writing campaign to MPAA Chairman Chris Dodd. The film industry “is doing everything and anything…
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it can to undermine parents and ensure that violence-packed movies are the talk of elementary and preschool playgrounds,” CCFC said in a press release (http://xrl.us/bob2i6). “Young children exposed to violent media have a higher tendency for violent and aggressive behavior later in life.” The Parents Television Council asked citizens to urge Vice President Joe Biden to further push the entertainment industry to be more responsible following the broadcast of The Following on Fox. PTC commended Biden for meeting with videogame and entertainment representatives this month to discuss proposals regarding violence (CD Jan 10 p3). The show is “one of the most unrepentantly violent television shows in recent memory on network television,” PTC said in a news release. It appears that Fox is only concerned with ratings, “scheduling the program in a primetime slot at 9 p.m. ET and carrying a low TV-14 rating,” it said.