Show f ii I. I t In whose interest The Federal Communications Commission was established to protect the publics public's interest in the licensing of radio and television broadcasting Recently however many have questioned whether the FCC is working in the interest of the people or in the interest of the powerful network monopolies which control most of what we are allowed to hear and see on our radios and especially on our television sets Appearing at a public hearing last May in Nashville Tennessee which was sponsored by Morality In Media Dr Harry Hollis a Southern Baptist Christian Life officer er said Im sick of all the bathroom humor on television I am tired of seeing I people wounded raped hanged stabbed beaten maimed and mur mur- dered We are pained by y the exploitation exploitation ex ex exploitation of sex and I am tired of being told by the networks that there is no definitive evidence that violence on TV causes people to act the same way Although Dr Hollis has written to the Chairman of the FCC on several occasions occasions occasions oc oc- oc- oc to protest the filthy language I rape scenes and murders that keep occurring with disgusting regularity the FCC has not even given him the courtesy of a reply Dr Hollis of course is not the only one to object to the steady decline of television entertainment The well- well known entertainer Danny Thomas has said TV is too dirty for our kids to watch Red Skelton charged that CBS wanted Jackie Gleason and himself to team up and tell risque jokes just to get people used to the idea so they could show their risque movies There are hundreds of skilled capable artists and performers who have the ability to present thoroughly entertaining and clean television fare The only things that stand in the way of such good entertainment are the Madison Avenue executives who with the aid of the FCC continue to thumb their noses at the American viewer Write or telephone protests to local television stations and send protests to the Federal Communications Commission Commission Com Corn mission 1919 M Street Washington D.C. D.C. D D. C. C One of its members Charlotte T. T Tied appears to be sympathetic to the public view |