FCC can stop kidding themselves

FCC CAN STOP KIDDING THEMSELVES
[SOURCE: Variety, AUTHOR: Brian Lowry]
[Commentary] Having spent years failing to craft a coherent policy regarding televised indecency, Democratic legislators and the Federal Communications Commission are groping to add violence to their regulatory comedy act. Yet if they're truly committed to helping parents navigate a confounding TV dial -- as opposed to just flapping their gums with grasping-for-moral-high-ground rhetoric -- there is a potential solution, one that could assist parents without reducing television to pabulum for the vast majority of adults who don't live with someone under the age of 16. After years of expecting parents to master the V-chip, TV content ratings and everything short of the Dewey-decimal system, TiVo or its digital-video recorder equivalent could be the answer. Indeed, it's an approach upon which many tech-fluent parents have already stumbled, confining children's viewing to programs allowed through TiVo's filter along with whatever DVDs they purchase. In this way, they eliminate channel-surfing or any other happenstance way kids might encounter inappropriate content. The result, parents will tell you, is tots who don't know much about TV networks or schedules, only how to punch up their specific programs.
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