Television+Censorship+(S,Kramer)

Vandergrift, kay. "Censorship." Web.20 Apr 2009. .
 * The increase in education may increase cases of things being censored. Kids are learning about wars and political things that could be censored in the future.
 * Censorship exists because parents feel the need to protect their children from dangerous ideas or things that they don't agree with.
 * Censorship also comes with judgment and personal opinions. One parent might think something is inappropriate while the next parent might not have a problem with it.
 * New technology is increasing censorship. With children being curious and such they want to explore things such as on the internet where it could be something their parents don't want them to see.
 * Kids are growing up in a different society.
 * Morals today are different then they were then
 * Parents try to teach their children what they were taught but the world they live in doesn't always allow it.
 * Parents today can't trust people like they could before.
 * Children have cerfews now and can't do anything past a certain time
 * During the 50s and 60s most kids could stay out as late as they wanted and didn't worry about police officers stopping them for doing something as simple as walking home.

Thierer, Adam. "Titillating TV and Creeping Censorship." Web.20 Apr 2009. .
 * During recent hearings with Congress, some of them think that federal censorship efforts should extend beyond licensed TV and radio operators to unlicensed media sources.
 * The Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake super bowl incident is what mainly keeps lawmakers thinking the government should keep a tight cap on censorship.
 * Law makers censor things because many people complain about things and say that one thing is too inappropriate for their children to see.
 * Others get upset with Congress with censorship because they believe they're vioalting their first ammendment.
 * About 140 million people were watching the Super Bowl 38
 * Some congressman sugest television, and sattelite companies have a "family-friendly" program where you can just get shows that would be appropriate for young children or the whole family to watch together.
 * Congress wants to censor some cable networks, but they don't have the right to.
 * People were afraid that Congress would violate the First Ammendment Rights
 * People became angry because Congress was censoring things that they believed shouldn't be aloud to censored.

Richard Worringham, and Rodney Buxton. "CENSORSHIP." 1. Web.21 Apr 2009. [].
 * A large change dealing with censorship came about in the early 1970's. This changed mainly because content of television was changing.
 * In the 50's and 60's television shows never used racial topics, and sexual comments and or discussions weren't heard of.
 * For example, the sexual relationship between Rob and Laura Petrie in //The Dick Van Dyke Show// during the mid-1960s could only be implied. When the couple's bedroom was shown, twin beds diffused any explicit connotation that they had a physical relationship (Richard Worringham, and Rodney Buxton ).
 * During the 50's and 60's, explicit language about body functions, explicit language in general, sacred words and sexual content were excluded completely.
 * Conceptions in the audiance took a drastic change in the 70's.
 * The television show //All In The Family// was the first broke the restrictions on sexual content and language on television.
 * A character on the show talks about sexuality for the first time on television, and not just heterosexuals. This show was on late, Sunday nights.
 * This was a new concern for comedy shows, because it was the first show that was aired dealing with race, sexual content, language, etc.
 * The script began getting slightly worse after the show had been on television for a period of time. The language began every so often, then it became "habbit" and was soon just another part of the show. This was the first time something like this happened.
 * Shows in the 50's and 60's wouldn't have had language and content like this, it was unheard of.
 * In 1973, the supreme court made a comment about how community standards will vary, depending upon where you go.
 * It was up to society to determine what was appropriate for television and what wasn't. With this of course, there would be serious contaversies, because not everyone would be satisfied.
 * When community courts had to decide what was appropriate and what wasn't, they had to think about the "average" person and what their thoughts were.
 * This often was a very challenging task for courts because not everyone would be pleased, and it was a social boundry that they were crossing.
 * Inappropriate language was unacceptable and completely unheard of before //All In The Family// aired.
 * There were special advocacy groups and interest groups that were beginning to confront the networks. They were upset with the content and representations that hadn't been present before the 70's.
 * The other side of the argument didn't seem to mind. The American Family Association decried the increasing presentation of non-traditional sexual behavior as acceptable in broadcast programming. Like some of the different sides and arguments, these people thought it was very appropriate.
 * Censorship was still present during the 50's and 60's, but it was based on the middle-white class.
 * In the 70's when more and more televison shows were broadcasting things dealing with race, sexuality, etc. censorship changed. Censorship started to deal with keeping the social groups equal, not hurting one more than the other, keeping everything "fair" and protecting the social classes' morals.
 * In the 1980's and 1990's censorship became more complex because in the 80's and 90's there was now cable television.
 * Cable television was able to offer more explicit sexual and violent programming than broadcast television was.
 * Because of increasing competition between cable and broadcast television, broadcast television had to loosen their restrictions on censorship.
 * People had major problems with censorship because of the First Amendment in the United States Constitution.
 * The First Amendment is very sensitive to peoples' rights on censorship because of the freedoms that we have

Davidson, P. (2004, Sept. 8). FCC to fine Viacom $0.5M for Super Bowl. //USA Today Online.// http://www.keepmedia.com/pubs/USATODAY/2004/09/08/573977?extID=10032&oliID=213 (7 Nov. 2004).
 * Super Bowl 38 had the most controversial thing happen concerning television censorship.
 * The Super Bowl was shown on CBS and it is a non-cable free channel. It has very extreme censorship and CBS was fined $55,000 by FCC.
 * This incident was the most serious that has happened, and it was fined the bigggest fine that FCC has ever given.
 * After the incident the case came to the US senetate and they passed a law saying a $275,000 fine could be enforced.
 * Depending on the situation, and the size of the broadcast network, fines could be more.
 * The white house supported this idea saying the legislation would make broadcast television and radio more "family oriented".
 * The White House also gave permission for any broadcasters that air obscene or inappropriate images, language etc. to get a "meaningful penalty".
 * Television has changed, and they have been responding to the restrictions they have been put under.
 * Some shows have been taken off of the air, and other networks are getting people to moniter their shows.
 * Some television companies have been taking action to convince or get parents to invest in the parental blockings or parental locks on certain shows or channels.
 * Shows that are "live" are delayed by a few minutes or seconds so that if something happens the network could take care of it before it actually aired.
 * MTV delayed the VMAs
 * ABC has a five second tape delay of the Oscars and CBS had a tape delayed Grammys.
 * About 750 milliion people watch big shows like this, causing television broadcasters to be extra careful

American Civil Liberties Union, "Government Regulation of Media Violence Is Unconstitutional Censorship." Web.21 Apr 2009. <[]¤tPosition=1&userGroupName=fred14595&resultListType=RESULT_LIST&sgHitCountType=None&qrySerId=Locale%28en%2CUS%2C%29%3AFQE%3D%28KE%2CNone%2C21%29Television+Censorship%3AAnd%3ALQE%3D%28AC%2CNone%2C8%29fulltext%24&inPS=true&searchType=BasicSearchForm&displaySubject=&docId=EJ3010153218&docType=GSRC>. Ho, David. "That's Idecent! (or is it?)." 2006 7. Web.20 Apr 2009. <[]>.
 * Some people say they would choose other shows but feel bombarded with the same genre of shows on every channel for example Murders/Investagatory work
 * The idea that Parenting your child and monitoring what they watch rather then censorship is becoming ever more popular
 * There is no right or wrong way when it comes to censorship
 * To back up people against censorship you can look at the low crime rate in japan, although they have violent tv shows
 * Certain studies have showed an increase in agression but only temporarly
 * This battle has been going on for years and probably years to come
 * Before Tv censorship you had censorship of things like the radio and books
 * These studies were done on children after seeing a violent program
 * Although violence on television has never actually been proven to cause the average person to be violent
 * To back up people against censorship you can look at the low crime rate in japan, although they have violent tv shows
 * Complaints to the FCC have sky rocket from a mere 346 in 2001 to a high of 4.1 million in 2004
 * Many people want it both ways- No innapropriate tv but no government censorship
 * One idea thought of was to have everyone just choose and order the specific channels they want
 * They later banned things considered offensive like sex, bodily functions and sex until later at night- this has stuck
 * The reason you cant just order channels you want is because the cable providers say it woulfn't be good for buisness
 * Kyle McSlarrow is the President of the National Cable and Telecommunications Association
 * The reason you cant just order channels you want is because the cable providers say it woulfn't be good for buisness
 * People think that the FCC's decisions are based alot on pressure dealing with politics
 * The consideration of making a law to heighten the FCC's power has been discused- no decision made
 * They later banned things considered offensive like sex, bodily functions and sex until later at night- this has stuck
 * In 2003 before the F-word was considered finable, the singer Bono said it on tv and thats what changed the law
 * television networks have been including a more racey and obscene viewing expierence
 * "with out a trace" was fined $3.3 Million for showing a teenage orgy