FCC Rules

The Times editorial “A Ban That Goes Too Far” (May 25) reflects the anarchist view that anything goes on television, and that as far as what minors watch or hear, parental supervision should be the ultimate authority. What you forget is that the airwaves belong to the public, not the broadcasters, and the public can ultimately decide through its representatives what is transmitted into our homes.

The Pacifica case certainly points in this direction, and it is absolutely necessary that the Supreme Court decide the validity of FCC regulations that have been in effect since 1934. We have learned enough about what unlimited exploitation does to people, and it is necessary that this nation, and indeed the nations of the new world order, protect its citizens from the arrogant usurpation of power that the broadcast media are trying to sneak through the courts, in defense of their own, often times, nihilistic agenda.

DENNIS JARRARD, Chairman

Commission on Obscenity and

Pornography, Archdiocese of Los Angeles