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The Internet as the New Satan
In the aftermath of the tragic shootings in Jonesboro, Arkansas, earlier this week, I hope that we, collectively, take a long hard look at the kind of stuff our kids are exposed to seven days a week on television. This isn't the sole problem, but it's a big issue. Cable TV points the finger Along that line, I found a recent article at wired.com extremely ironic. The president of the largest U.S. cable television company, Tele-Communications, Inc., has issued a warning to a conference of Roman Catholoc bishops that the Internet is "awash in indecency," and is urging the bishops to take a leading role in the fight to "cleanse cyberspace." This stunning observation is apparently largely based upon his discovery of an extremely offbeat website, operated by a woman, featuring a 24-hour web-cam installed in her apartment. Okay, so this rates as kinky. Where is the balance? There are millions of websites on the Internet. A relatively small percentage of these may contain adult-related material, be of "questionable taste," or whatever you wish to call it. On the flip side of this, we have a nation of children, pre-adolescents, and teenagers who watch thousands and thousands of hours of television, often unsupervised, containing almost as many thousands of acts of violence. Besides the large number of violent TV images, our kids are also exposed to glamorized violence in many movies coming out of Hollywood. Reality-check time Which do you think is ultimately more dangerous and destructive for the "moral fiber" of our country? I would urge the television and motion picture industries to take a long, hard look at the tidal wave of violent images coming out of their own shops before making sweeping generalizations based upon a statistically insignificant aberration on the Internet. |
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