The Coming Fight Over TV Violence
Time reports the guardians of decency are warning about new trouble, with a capital T, which rhymes with V, which stands for violence. The right-wing, religiously-based Parents Television Council (PTC), the group at the vanguard of the TV-sex wars, has lately [a href="vny!://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1599719,00.html?xid=site-cnn-partner"]focused on prime-time blood[/a]: power-tool torture on 24, serial killing on Criminal Minds, and vivisection on Heroes.
And the FCC has prepared a draft report suggesting that Congress authorize it to regulate broadcast violence, as it now does obscenity, and possibly force cable companies to let subscribers opt out of paying for channels that run brutal content. In short, torture is the new sex. Jack Bauer is the new Janet Jackson.
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Whether it's sex education, abortion rights or teaching evolution in schools, the religious right won't ever quit. If they win in one area, they'll just start pushing their religious agenda in a different arena, and they'll keep it up until the government is enforcing religious principles. They're the American Taliban.
