David Kronke: Poll: Don't tell us what we can watch
A poll conducted by an advocacy group called TV Watch shows that Americans overwhelmingly disapprove of the FCC’s efforts to stifle free speech amongst broadcasters. In a sneaky if clever way of marginalizing the handful of pro-censorship Americans, TV Watch notes that the 12 percent who advocate governmental regulation of TV content is smaller than the percentage of Americans who believe that alien abductions have occurred.
87 percent of those polled believed that there are enough controls in place for families to regulate their TV viewing as they deem appropriate, and that small self-interest groups should not be able to petition the FCC and decide what the rest of the country can or cannot see. Three-quarters say the government should not waste taxpayers’ money investigating the complaints of a handful of people when an overwhelming majority of viewers watched a program without being offended, and that they would be upset if governmental regulation restricted what they got to see.
All well and good, but when was the last time anyone in Washington actually paid attention to what the majority of Americans believe?
The following link to the story is a bit of a chuckle, since it’s at the CBS News website and CBS is the network that’s been absolutely pounded in recent days by the FCC.
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