Word: charren
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Peggy Charren, the leading crusader for the Children's Television Act and a visiting scholar at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education, says, "There is no one set of guidelines applicable to every family. It's hard to tell working parents with latchkey kids, for instance, to keep them away from the television. But parents should at least get involved in what the children watch. Some of it is wonderful, some of it mindless, some of it horrifying, and they need our guidance...
Despite years of efforts by parents, educators, children's-TV activists, and occasional FCC commissioners and members of Congress, the forces of commercial television are overwhelming the true believers in quality children's programming. Peggy Charren, founder of the now defunct advocacy group Action for Children's Television, says, "There are more choices than when I began act 27 years ago because of cable and the vcr, but broadcast television has just gotten worse. What's so sad is that's all that's available to poor children, and they are the ones who need the most help." Newton...
...While Senate majority leader Robert Dole and Speaker of the House Gingrich bemoan the state of American culture, they oppose government mandates on children's programming and demand that pbs stop relying on federal appropriations. "It's nauseating," says Charren, "that the same guy [Dole] who is attacking what's terrible in entertainment is working very hard to keep the alternatives from getting on the TV screen...
...versions and replace the so-called finishing moves with less realistic endings, although the final product is still pretty brutal. Sega decided to use a warning label alerting parents that the game is not suitable for children under 13, but few expect that to have the desired effect. Peggy Charren, founder of Action for Children's Television, believes that the labels will actually make the game more attractive to kids: "It's a warning to the children that tells them, 'This is what I want...
...this is a children's story, and the good guys get the last word. Peggy Charren, the veteran kidvid activist, notes that educational shows rarely get high ratings because they must be geared toward specific age groups; that is why government monitoring must supplement the marketplace. "It's a bloody shame," she says, "that in a country as rich and achieving as this one, you had to drag the broadcasters kicking and screaming to serve children." Now, perhaps, the kicking may subside and the serving will start...