TV Week's Joe Adalian Writes About My Pals At the Parents Television Council

 

Click there now! He says:

The PTC doesn’t want to make TV safe for kids. It wants to make it safe only for those shows that fit into its narrowly constructed worldview of what constitutes acceptable TV. And when it identifies programming that doesn’t mesh with its agenda, the PTC goes into overdrive whipping up its base to take action.

“All they’re about is fund raising and court cases,” said one network executive who, like everyone interviewed for this column, spoke only on the condition of anonymity. “They would rather curse the darkness than light a candle.”

Consider: This summer, the PTC called on CBS affiliates to pre-empt the network’s “Swingtown” -- even though the show aired in the last hour of prime time across the country. “‘Swingtown’ undermines the institutions of marriage and family,” the PTC said in calling for its boycott. “This show should not be on broadcast television -- period.”

It doesn’t matter that “Swingtown” contained no obscene language or nudity. The fact that CBS aired the show at 10 p.m. in most of the country is irrelevant. Adult viewers simply shouldn’t be able to watch this show, period, according to the cultural crusaders of the PTC.

Go, Joe!!!

I'm glad I'm not the only one out here getting sick and tired of these holier-than-thou types that spend their days trying to find ways for the federal gov't to do their bidding on social issues.

If you don't like the damn show, change the channel. Don't want your kids to watch? Control your kids!!!

Are you purported people of faith so weak of faith that you can't follow the rules of your religion without using government agencies to keep you in check?

Because that's what it looks like to me.