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New Study Reveals Parents Television Council is Totally Into Sex and Violence

August 5, 2008 by Jim Connelly

I want a new job. I want to go work for the Parents Television Council, and spend my time watching and cataloging sex & violence on prime-time television. This is what they do. They watch TV, looking for sex and violence, and when they find it, they tell the world. It’s awesome.

They’ve just released a study with this alarming headline:

Happily Never After: How Hollywood Favors Adultery and Promiscuity Over Marital Intimacy on Prime Time Broadcast Television

Here’s the deal: at the beginning of this TV season, they watched 207 hours of prime-time network television, painstakingly waiting for some kind of sexual reference by a character, and then thinking long, deep and hard about what kind of sexual reference it was.

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Filed Under: Censorship, Focusing on the Wrong Problem, Politics, Television Tagged With: James Ponewozik, Parents Television Council, PTC, Time Magazine

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