Federal Communications Commission Policy Matters and Television Programing: Hearings, Ninety-first Congress, First Session, Del 1–2

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Sida 355 - Lear. Howl, howl, howl, howl ! — O ! you are men of stones ; Had I your tongues and eyes, I'd use them so That heaven's vault should crack. — She's gone for ever. — I know when one is dead, and when one lives ; She's dead as earth. — Lend me a looking-glass ; If that her breath will mist or stain the stone, Why, then she lives.
Sida 355 - And my poor fool is hang'd! No, no, no life! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more, Never, never, never, never, never!
Sida 413 - Commission that the public interest, convenience, and necessity will be served thereby. Any such application shall be disposed of as if the proposed transferee or assignee were making application under section 308 for the permit or license in question; but in acting thereon the Commission may not consider whether the public interest, convenience, and necessity might be served by the transfer, assignment, or disposal of the permit or license to a person other than the proposed transferee or...
Sida 383 - The education of children involves giving them a sense of the world at large. Crime, violence and sex are a part of the world they will be called upon to meet, and a certain amount of proper presentation of such is helpful in orienting the child to his social surroundings. However, violence and illicit sex shall not be presented in an attractive manner, nor to an extent such...
Sida 335 - General to appoint a committee comprised of distinguished men and women from whatever professions and disciplines deemed appropriate to devise techniques and to conduct a study under his supervision using those techniques which will establish scientifically insofar as possible what harmful effects, if any, these programs have on children.
Sida 439 - Such subjects as violence and sex shall be presented without undue emphasis and only as required by plot development or character delineation. Crime should not be presented as attractive or as a solution to human problems, and the inevitable retribution should be made clear.
Sida 361 - Low income adults rely less on the print media. Low income white adults spend almost five hours each day watching television. Low income black adults watch television almost six hours a day. The media habits of teenagers show that they are even heavier users of television than their parents. Moreover, recent studies have indicated that 40 percent of the poor black children and 30 percent of the poor white children (compared with 15 percent of the middle class white children) believe that what they...
Sida 439 - Excessive or unfair exploitation of others or of their physical or mental afflictions shall not be presented as praiseworthy. q) Criminality shall be presented as undesirable and unsympathetic. The condoning of crime and the treatment of the commission of crime in a frivolous, cynical or callous manner is unacceptable.
Sida 462 - US SENATE, COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE. SUBCOMMITTEE ON COMMUNICATIONS, Washington, DC The subcommittee met at 10 am in room 5110, New Senate Office Building, Hon. John O. Pastore, chairman of the subcommittee, presiding. Present : Senators Pastore, Hartke, Long, Moss, Cannon.
Sida 336 - I am exceedingly troubled by the lack of any definitive information which would help resolve the question of whether there is a causal connection between televised crime and violence and antisocial behavior by individuals, especially children.