TV Censorship:

In response to the Federal Communication Commission's inquiry into the question of whether violent content on television harms children, the Center for Creative Voices in Media, the Caucus for Television Producers, Writers & Directors, and children's TV activist Peggy Charren have told the FCC it should embark on a public education campaign to promote healthy viewing habits instead of restricting violent programming. "Censorship and its unintended consequence, self-censorship, do not serve the public interest. They are a ‘cure' that is worse than the ‘disease.' They will diminish even further the creative, original, challenging, controversial, non-homogenized, and appropriate programming which is already so scarce on television,” wrote Vin Di Bona, Chairman, The Caucus of Television Producers, Writers & Directors in comments filed with the FCC on October 15, 2004.