Wrestling on TV
Sir,—The heading “TV wrestling ban not the answer” (June 21) did not accurately reflect the views of the Children’s Television Foundation. In fact we are circulating the petition to our members. Consumer movements in the United States, which have boycotted products advertised on violent entertainment programmes, have been very successful in making networks reconsider their purchase of violent series. We see consumer pressure on the industry as part of the answer. In an age of satellite and video it is growing impossible for any simple policing of content. Someone, somewhere will be showing the very worst and some child somewhere will be watching it without adult guidance. It falls more and more on those of us rearing and educating children to demand the research to find out how
children use the media and put in place media education for parents, teachers and children so it is understood how much the media “reconstruct” and skew “reality.”—Yours, etc.,
RUTH ZANKER, for Children’s Television Foundation, June 21, 1989.
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