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Show You Said It L made available. Let's get down to basics. Murphy Brown's actions are a product of our choices. If the federal fed-eral government isn't happy with the outcome, then let it clean up the television market. Annette Tidwell Farmington pubhc, old and young, over the last decade of television? It has become the rulenot the exceptionthat sex be the underlying theme of most every made-for-TV movie, day and evening soap drama, and situation comedy. Sex, whether it be the discussion or selected glimpses of the act itself, has been portrayed as funny, openly discussed, and anything but sacred to the pubhc view. It has become a TV fact that "power lunches" never come close to a restaurant, but occur between the sheets. President Bush's objection is a little like promoting and selling a "How To" book for all ages only to find in the last chapter that the author suggests you disregard everything you've read in the previous chapters! If the only product pro-duct available to a consumer is sweets from a candy shop, how can you shake a finger at someone for getting fat? It is ludicrous to lecture about welfare and economics to a society that has forgotten that 1 plus another often leads to a third. I suggest that, if Mr. Bush wants to put some muscle behind his objections, ob-jections, he somehow put some bite into the federal laws that govern the quality of programming on the airways. air-ways. Of course, the pubhc has always had the option of choosing what it wants to see and hear, but I feel very few alternatives have been Bikinis are not R-rated clothing Editor: I agree with most of your editorial, "Punishment should fit crime," April 28, in that the incident inci-dent at Brighton High was O overplayed and that "a man's career ca-reer should not end based on what happened at Brighton High." I would then ask what punishment punish-ment would be fitting for the crime committed by your editorial writer(s)? What aspect of the incident inci-dent was "R-Rated" by the definition defini-tion that causes a movie to be given Q"R" rating? I am aware of nudi-sex, nudi-sex, violence and language as components which result in such a rating, but nothing mentioned in the media so far as I observed included any of those four components. Check the video stores and I think you will find that movies with bikini-clad women are given at most a "PG-13" rating unless language lan-guage or other components of the movie cause it to be rated "R." Yet the implication in the following follow-ing quote "How many parents of teens allow them to wear R-rated clothing to school?..." is that the C wearing of a bikini is synonymous ith an "R" rating. I feel that your editorial was irresponsible, ir-responsible, inflationary and indicative indica-tive of a lack of professional jour nalism on your part. What punishment fits the crime? Gary L. Allen Bountiful Some thanks from a student Editor: Thank you to you and your readers for sending information on Utah. It helped me with my state report. I learned a lot about Utah. Sincerely, Alexander Hagman Grade Two Aspen Elementary School Murphy Brown is not the problem Dear Editor So, President Bush and his partner part-ner object to the message given by the TV character, Murphy Brown, that having a child out of wedlock is rational and acceptable. I'd like to know where the objection objec-tion has been to the hundreds of messages given to the American |