Stop The Violence?
It's unclear, at this early stage, how this all may play out. But if it goes forward it won't be without controversy. Violence can be hard to define, after all – would a boxing match, for example, need to be regulated? And what about the news? If a report from Iraq includes images of dead bodies, could the broadcaster be fined – or worse – for showing them? Critics say parents need to take responsibility over what their kids see on television, but that argument has done little to curtail "indecency" regulations. They also worry about the free speech implications of federally regulating TV violence. "What this is is government control of creative content, and we have a real problem with that,'' Jonathan Rintels, executive director of the Center for Creative Voices in Media, told Reuters.