TV Violence and Government's Swipe at the First Amendment |
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| Media Link - Washington Times | ||||
| Tuesday, 04 January 1994 00:00 | ||||
Sen. Paul Simon (D-IL) has "summoned" the heads of ABC, CBS and NBC to his office to discuss the issue of violence and television. It is entirely possible that the fate of the First Amendment -- the last bastion of individual rights still respected by our government -- will be decided at that meeting. Television networks are not public property -- nor are they the property of Sen. Simon et al. The networks belong to the owners, who are responsible for making them go on the air each day and without whom there would be no television viewing in the first place. Simon refuses to understand that the U.S. Constitution provided for a limited government. A limited government protects individual rights, which can only be violated by the initiation of physical force (or fraud) of one individual against another. Using this definition, it is utterly illogical to claim a "right" to violent-free television. Far more is at stake here than the content of a few television shows. Once the door is open to government "management" of program content, the principle is established that the government has the final say in what is shown and not shown on television. It is imperative that network officials not budge one inch from the principle of individual rights.
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