-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 9/26/97 2:20 PM, Bill Stewart (stewarts@ix.netcom.com) passed this wisdom:
The FCC yesterday proposed rules that would give television manufacturers until July 1 1998 to put V-Chips in half of new TV sets with monitors 13 inchesor larger,and in all sets by July 1, 1999. Reed Hundt said that this will "ensure that V-Chip technology does in fact exist in a relatively short period of time".Industry officials protested that the time limit is way too short for manufacturers,saying they need 18 months - 2 years. Comment period runs until November.
Meanwhile, some of the major TV networks are going to a more detailed rating system,Sex/Violence/Language/SuggestiveDialog, with a FantasyViolence category for kids' shows.NBC is resisting that.
At the risk of asking the obvious .... what ever happened to parents supervising their kids ... I know all the reasons ... mod and dad working etc .... but I teach school, and here in Vermont I still run into families with two breadwinners who actually know what their kids are doing ... (sadly, not as many as I wish I would meet; and since my job is working with 'at risk' students 98% of the parents I deal with have no clue as to what their kids are doing) The joke of the whole thing is that most probably the kids will know how to manage the 'controls' better than the parents and they will use the V-ratings and controls to figure out which shows they will find 'most interesting!' -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQA/AwUBNC0Qp8dZgC62U/gIEQL/qwCfZCgLjnIND1sI6yYIVNrFtuLCbOAAn3k5 PgcBlDQdw/15KXFUJnAay01V =7mLT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Brian B. Riley --> http://www.macconnect.com/~brianbr For my PGP Keys mailto:brianbr@together.net?subject=Get%20PGP%20Key "...error reading WinOS. (A)bort, (R)etry, (M)acintosh?"