The Senate Commerce Committee plans to examine a media...
The Senate Commerce Committee plans to examine a media violence bill this month authored by Chairman Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., industry officials said. The Violent Content Research Act (S-134) would direct the FTC and the FCC to work with the National…
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Academy of Sciences to determine if violent programming and videogames have any harmful effects on children. A committee spokesman declined to comment. Rockefeller introduced similar legislation less than a week after the deadly elementary school shooting in Newtown, Conn., but it did not advance before the end of the last Congress. David Cerullo, CEO of South Carolina-based cable network INSP, commended Rockefeller for “insisting that potential links between violent video content and violent behavior should be studied by experts in the field,” in a letter sent Friday. “It is my hope that scientific studies showing the harmful impact television violence has on children will help reduce the amount of violent video content on television and will help convince video service providers to include more family friendly channels in their offerings.”