[Oliver Optic]

What the "if-you-don't-like-it-just-change-the-channel" brigade doesn't understand is that we have to raise our children in this coarsened, hyper-sexed society.

Yes, we can change the channel ... or get rid of the TV. But that doesn't make it safe for our little girls to walk around the block.

There are consequences to a cultural indulgence in sexual libertinism ... and every day on the news we see the chickens coming home to roost.

[mnehring]

There is always the 'power' button or sending the kids to their room to do homework.

It is not the 'if you don't just like it change the channel' it is preventing the intrusion of government becoming the nannies of society.

If sex(sic) didn't sell, it wouldn't be on the air. You want to change what is on TV, change the demand.

[Crispus Attucks Patriot]

So what do you wish to do? Restrict liberty in the time honored tradition favored by tyrannies for millenia?

You know the one..."well, to protect the children we must curtail..."

How dare anyone threaten my freedoms for that old tired reason? Ben Franklin was talking about such people in his quote...

"Those who would forsake essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-Benjamin Franklin

[madprof98]

Yes, we can change the channel ... or get rid of the TV. But that doesn't make it safe for our little girls to walk around the block.

Exactly right. In fact, it doesn't even make it safe for them to interact with other kids their age in wholesome settings . . . because the other kids cannot be expected to be particularly wholesome themselves. We have no TV reception in our home (though we do have a set for the VCR). Nonetheless, my 7-year-old picks up the latest in TV culture from peers at her suburban Catholic school.