From: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
To: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
Message Hash: b1bc66f397eca94135fb9a54f7b32af8113745391a7e6d4e0d19955ddbed640f
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UTC Datetime: 1997-04-25 21:27:07 UTC
Raw Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 14:27:07 -0700 (PDT)
From: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 14:27:07 -0700 (PDT)
To: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
Subject: Re: Cato forum on liquor advertising and electronic media
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.95.970424163313.23480J-100000@well.com>
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At 04:33 PM 4/24/97 -0700, Declan McCullagh wrote:
>The Center for Media Education is trying to accelerate this process. In a
>fearmongering report earlier this year, the group demanded that a slew of
>government agencies -- the FCC, FDA, FTC, CDC, NCI, and the WHO -- take
>"urgent agction" to "protect" America's children from tobacco and liquor
>advertising online.
Sigh. Guess we'll have to do another information-logo-on-web-page campaign.
The real question is whether we should be in-your-face about it
and use a Joe Camel icon for the "Fight Commercial Censorship" campaign,
or something civilized like the many beer and wine company logos on the net.
"Fight censorship on the net - have a Beer!" Would Mr. Butts be available?
Meanwhile, back on Television, the "We know what's best for you"
program ratings are getting panned by everyone. I almost wonder if the
TV moguls decided to do a deliberately unsatisfactory rating system
rather that giving the censorship people the amount of control they want?
The proposed "sex/violence/language" ratings left out an important category
many parents would like in deciding what their kids can watch -- "Greed".
And neither the proposed nor the enacted systems rates commercials....
So you won't be able to set that V-Chip to auto-block commercials.
PYRBBROW.GIF
# Thanks; Bill
# Bill Stewart, +1-415-442-2215 stewarts@ix.netcom.com
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