Word: screens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Yesterday, for the first time in a long while, I turned on the television in my room. As a program started, some odd letters flashed on the left hand side of the screen: TV-something. What were they, these mysterious letters? A glitch of the emergency operating system? Some odd code to alien spaceships so their attacks could be synchronized? Perhaps even a subliminal message? In fact, the strange message in the corner of my screen was a part of the new system of television ratings...
...best chance may lie in subliminal communication, because the system itself isn't all that helpful. The 30-second flash of alphabet soup in the corner of my eye does not indicate in any degree of detail what type of inappropriate content I am about to see on my screen. Instead, all I am provided is one of six different ratings, reminiscent of the movie-rating system, that offers a rough estimate of the level of violence, sex and bad language contained in the program. However, this system does not assist the parent who does not want...
...system was produced by a 21-member task force headed by Jack Valenti, president of the Motion Pictures Association of America (the similarity to the ratings used for motion pictures should make sense now). One of its greatest perks is that it provides an easy way for parents to screen out certain programs using a V-chip by specifying the level of programming below which they deem unacceptable. However, the system as it exists is too simple--mixing in sex, blood and curses in one ultimate rating of age-appropriateness does not provide the discriminating viewer with very much information...
...stop watching television. But even we non-children would like to screen out some of the very questionable images shown on television. A more comprehensive rating system would benefit everyone without affecting anyone's freedom of choice...
...clear that [my script] had been written by an amateur, but I think that they expected that," he says. "I suspect that they were also excited to tout something new and unique, a young kid writing a screen-play...