Church Council Seeks TV Curbs
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NEW YORK — Sex and violence on television foment “antisocial and aggressive behavior” that seriously threatens the quality of American life, an investigation by the National Council of Churches concluded today.
A special committee of the interdenominational group recommended that the federal government act to protect the public from what it called “moral pollution” from a dominant influence in modern society.
The report dealt with films and network and cable television, singling out television as “the most pervasive of all media.”
The “vicious character” of program content can be reduced without crippling the industry’s potential or profits or abridging legitimate freedom of expression, it said.
The 48-page report criticized deregulation of broadcasting and charged the Federal Communications Commission with abandoning public trusteeship of the airwaves, allowing market forces alone to determine the output.
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