The FCC's not our mommy and daddy

AT THE BEHEST of Congress, the Federal Communications Commission issued a report last week on "violent television programming and its impact on children" that calls not just for expanding governmental oversight of broadcast TV but extending content regulation to cable and satellite channels for the first time. The FCC also recommended that some shows be banned from time slots when children might be watching and that cable and satellite operators be forced to offer "a la carte" service in which subscribers would pick and choose among individual channels.

By Nick Gillespie

May 2, 2007