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...same, the First Amendment does not guarantee minors the right to purchase the same material that adults can. The FTC report suggested that more retailers should not let kids buy stickered CDs and video games, just as teens are barred from NC-17 films. This would allow record labels and video-game makers to release whatever they please, and adults to buy it and even pass it on to their kids if they thought that was O.K. But that's a prospect that makes entertainment executives nervous, since the market for the raunchiest and most belligerent pop culture is made...
...year ago, in the aftermath of the Columbine school massacre, when raw pop culture was blamed for furnishing some of the mental climate in which the killers let their grievances fester. Sidestepping the interminable question of what role song lyrics and movies play in real violence, Clinton asked the FTC just to determine whether the movies, pop music and video games that manufacturers themselves label as questionable for kids were being marketed to kids anyway. The report concluded that "the answers are plainly...
...ratings--for instance, for violence, sex, profanity or drug use--and that its ABC-TV network would no longer accept ads for R-rated movies during prime time before 9 p.m. Jack Valenti, head of the Motion Picture Association of America, admitted to the committee that the FTC report identified some practices--like focus groups for 10-year-olds--that should end. But he insists that the ratings system adopted by the movie industry in 1968 is working as intended. "Eighty-one percent of parents are satisfied with the system," he told TIME, citing an FTC survey. "We must...
...after the FTC issued its report, South Carolina attorney general Charlie Condon called it a "smoking gun" that would allow him and other state attorneys general to sue the entertainment companies in the same way they successfully sued the tobacco industry. "They're going after these kids full bore," he says. "It's like an aspirin company marketing adult aspirin to children in violation of their own standards." But a class action of the kind that brought down the cigarette makers would be a hard case. While the connection between smoking and cancer is backed by solid medical evidence...
...report showing the lengths to which the entertainment industry goes in marketing mayhem and sex to children under 17. Gore and running mate Joe Lieberman, a longtime critic of the industry, vowed that if these companies don't change their selling practices, a Gore-Lieberman Administration would give the FTC new enforcement powers and prosecute them for false advertising...