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...popular children's programming in America. Murdoch's Fox Children's Network has virtually all the top-rated shows on Saturday morning, including the Power Rangers, Spider-Man and Eek!Stravaganza. Says Margaret Loesch, president of fcn: "I'm trying to do in our entertainment what I as a parent want broadcasters to do . We are trying to present fantasy. We drive home the point that this is not real, and we tell children not to play karate at home." Some of Fox's kids' shows actually do have redeeming quality-Steven Spielberg's Animaniacs spouts Shakespeare and Where...
...publish American Psycho, the sado-chic novel by Bret Easton Ellis, after advance complaints about passages detailing the sexual torture and mutilation of women. (It was subsequently published by Knopf, a division of Random House.) "It's our responsibility,'' says Martin Davis, then chairman of Simon & Schuster's corporate parent Paramount. "You have to stand for something.'' This is just the sort of thing that Dole says he has in mind: self-restraint on the part of producers and distributors. "I'm just saying sometimes you have to have corporate responsibility and remember the impact on children...
...knock some of its pre-eminent citizens at a fund raiser. The presidential candidate criticized entertainment moguls for producing what he called "nightmares of depravity"-films, television and music filled with sex and brutality that "push the limits of decency." Dole took particular aim at Time Warner (TIME's parent company) for its dissemination of violence-laced gangsta-rap music...
Across the disciplines, classes, office hours, laboratory experiments and field research inevitably clash with ballet recitals, baseball games, parent-teacher conferences, bedtimes and--sometimes most problematically-children's illnesses...
...group representing its interests, to use Harvard's name and facilities to solicit Harvard students....It is not religious bias that has brought administrators at Boston University to expel it from campus and those at MIT to suspend its activities....The group cannot be autonomous and its parent group refuses to respect Harvard's ban on proselytism....We support Dean Epps' opposition to the group and hope Dean Jewett will deny the group recognition...