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So, you want the government to decide what you should watch. How about the governemnt deciding what you should wear, or what you should read or what you can purchase? Let's not let the parents decide, they're too stupid.

Yeah. I knew I'd get some of this, I just wish the disagreement was a little more on target, a little less attack -mode. Oh well.

No, I obviously don't want the things you suggest. I just want the PUBLIC stations that use the PUBLIC airways to be less agenda driven with what they put out there for public consumption. If you want the porn/violence/gay agenda/liberal agenda/etc, that is fine, just don't put it on TV during what used to be called the 'family hour'. Watching Will & Grace, which is a very funny show, slowly dull the senses of American regarding a dangerous life style concerns me. Watching every member of "Friends" sleep with everyone else and push the idea that it is not only OK, but expected, concerns me for my 17 year old daughter and her friends. Sex in the City is a pay-channel show and all I'm suggesting is that the major, free and public networks not compete in that market.

Yes I can turn it off. Yes I can monitor what my kids watch. No I don't have cable or sat. But why am I having to protect my self and my kids from TV that my government supports by allowing them to use the public airways?

I did not attack you.

How about getting rid of your private TV. No one is forcing you to own it, much let alone view it. Is this a new constitutional option the liberals want to invent? If enough people thought that TV was trash, and opted out, instead of expecting once again the government to intervene, maybe we could get back our morality. But instead, too many folks have a television and expect Hollywood to be the moral compass coming into their homes and the government to regulate a cesspool.

mad puppy, I think everyone agrees with you. There is nothing but garbage on TV. However, many of us here believe that government is not the answer. Once you open the "censor" door you will end up with much more censorship than you could ever imagine.