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...advertising explanations of why any of its films received PG-13, R or NC-17 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...
Zittrain made several off-the-cuff remarks about Jack Valenti, the president of the Motion Picture Association of America who has worked to protect his industry from copyright infringement...
...pages of text with 251 footnotes reads like a lucid exploration of a developing medium, peppered with incisive sound-bite quotations from the New York Times' Tom Wicker and James Reston, Bill Moyers and Jack Valenti...
...images are often blurred and jerky. And downloading them onto your computer is a federal felony. But violators are hard to catch and the films are free, so they're finding an audience. "Online movie piracy is a cancer in the belly of our business," frets M.P.A.A. president Jack Valenti. "It's not a big problem today, but it could plant the seeds for the garden of evil...
...present rating 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...