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...violence. He questions the use of boycotts when there are other remedies available-for example, share holder proposals at annual meetings to ban company advertisements on excessively violent shows. One such N.C.C. petition succeeded, Fore said, in persuading General Mills executives to adopt the policy voluntarily. Peggy Charren of Newtonville, Mass., a Boston suburb, is head of Action for Children's Television, which has successfully lobbied for better juvenile programming. Her group opposes the coalition's crusade, she says, "because ACT believes that the Moral Majority is not out to improve children's television but rather...
...Peggy Charren--director of Action for Children's Television, Gutman Library fourth floor lounge...