Why government should not police TV violence and indecency

WHY GOVERNMENT SHOULD NOT POLICE TV VIOLENCE AND INDECENCY
[SOURCE: The Christian Science Monitor, AUTHOR: Caroline Fredrickson, American Civil Liberties Union]
[Commentary] When is a cuss word broadcast over television or radio indecent? At a live awards show where an award recipient uses a profanity? During a war movie? In a blues documentary where expletives fly? If you said all three were indecent, you would be wrong. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is America's indecency police, but its vague and confusing criteria for what constitutes "indecency" leave everyone in the dark. Parents have the tools they need to protect their children. If the government steps in and regulates the content of television shows or relegates certain shows to a late-night or early-morning hour, it steps over the line and becomes the Federal Babysitting Agency ­ replacing parents as the ultimate decisionmakers. The power to control the upbringing of children, including what they watch, should remain in the most capable, effective, and constitutional hands possible: the parents.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0906/p09s01-coop.html