Posted on 03/21/2002 8:44:26 AM PST by GeneD
Edited on 09/03/2002 4:50:09 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
An analysis of television content shows steep declines in the portrayals of sex and violence on the small screen over the last couple of years, surprising the media watchdog group that conducted it.
The Center for Media and Public Affairs, a Washington-based nonpartisan group, found that sexual material fell by 29% and serious violence by 17% from the 1998-99 TV season to the 2000-01 cycle.
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NBC= Nothing but cr*p
CBS= Cr*p broadcasting System
Don't watch cr*p!
Unfortunately, the group only analyzed the content of HGTV, The Food Channel, Cartoon Network, and ESPN.
I'll take their word for it.
For instance, major motion pictures have vastly less nudity now than they did in the '70s and '80s. Had Gladiator, for instance, been made ten years ago it would have had a naked orgy scene. Young actresses then peeled as a matter of course. Nowadays, has the screen been graced with the hooters of Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles, Rachel Leigh Cooke, etc ? And apparently there were compelling marketting arguments in favor of keeping Britney Spear's top on in Crossroads (I hear she wanted the top down but was overruled by the producers.).
But at the same time late night cable is full of soft porn. Indeed, nudity has become a sign that a starlet is either desparate or becoming so. It didn't help the careers of Jane March or Elizabeth Berkeley. And it has hurt Charlize Theron's credibility.
There is still tons of nudity but it is all confined to the career dead end of cable soft porn.
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