Word: smuts
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...episode of Deadwood would presumably crash the system. The ETS is thoroughly indexed by theme--"Threesome," "Masturbation," "Obscene Gesture." With it, the group can detect patterns of sleaze and curses and spotlight advertisers who buy on naughty shows. It is a meticulously compiled, cross-referenced, multimegabyte Alexandria Library of smut...
...watch? The slogan that greets visitors to the PTC's website is "Because our children are watching." But for some decency advocates, the problem is also that someone else's children are watching--it's the problem, which both liberal and conservative parents experience, of being exposed to "secondhand smut." Jack Thompson is a Coral Gables, Fla., attorney who filed a series of complaints against Stern that resulted in a $495,000 fine against Clear Channel Communications. A decency hard-liner--he thinks shock jock Stern should be in jail--Thompson doesn't buy the argument that parents should just...
...only politicians and activists who experience cognitive dissonance on indecency--so do everyday citizens. They want protection from smut yet don't use the V chip. They talk about competing with pop culture to parent their children yet give kids TVs and computers in their bedrooms. They rail against sex and violence in entertainment, yet--as a group, anyway--reward it and punish the alternatives. The most wholesome new network show of last fall was CBS's Clubhouse, a sweet drama about a teenage bat boy for a baseball team, executive-produced by Mel (The Passion of the Christ) Gibson...
...most popular. The salacious stuff is clearly an embarrassment to the Clinton Administration, which has been trying to make a virtue of getting the Internet into schools. The White House is concerned, admits Tom Kalil, an adviser to Vice President Al Gore. But to judge the Net by its smut, he says, "is like forming an impression of New York City by looking only at the crime statistics...
...movies. The site was started two years ago by Citizens for Community Values (C.C.V.), a conservative organization based in Cincinnati that compiled a list of Ohio hotels that are porn free. Then Myer Hotels, based in Branson, Mo., stepped in to help expand the project into a listing of smut-free hotels anywhere in the country. The site is still in an early, beta-testing phase, but Chris Myer, the company's interactive boss, sees a big future. "There are a lot of people who want to protect their families from pornography," he says. Adds David Miller, vice president...