Are we redeeming media?: Study shows PG-13 movies of today resemble R-rated of 1992
Tuesday October 11, 2005
PG-13 Movies of Today Resemble R-Rated of 1992: StudyCAMBRIDGE, Mass, October 11, 2005 (
LifeSiteNews.com) – A Harvard study has concluded that the sexual content of modern movies has become far more explicit than even 13 years ago – to the degree that a movie rated PG-13 today would have garnered an R-rating in 1992.
The researchers concluded that “the MPAA [Motion Picture Association of America] applied less stringency in its age-based ratings over time for the period of 1992-2003.” In other words, as time went on, a PG rating became more and more meaningless, and was no guarantee that the film was free of the graphic sexual imagery that parents would not normally be comfortable allowing a 13-year-old to watch.
In the same period since 1992, a similar study found that G-rated movies had become eleven times more profitable than their R-rated counterparts. Since 1968, 60 percent of all movies made have been given an R-rating, whereas only 3 of the top 25 movies of all time were R-rated movies, according to a four-year study conducted by the Dove Foundation. The Dove Foundation awards a blue and white Dove Seal to any movie or video that is rated “family-friendly” by its film review board.
A separate study examining the top 200 movies of all time revealed that the consequences of so-called casual sex as depicted in movies, such as unwanted pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease, was never portrayed in the movies.
See the BBC coverage:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4294476.stm
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Soon-to-be released courtroom thriller "A Distant Thunder" exposes partial birth abortion
Tuesday October 11, 2005
Hollywood Created Film Exposes Partial Birth Abortion Via Courtroom ThrillerLOS ANGELES, October 11, 2005 (
LifeSiteNews.com) - A soon-to-be released motion picture about the partial birth abortion debate is already attracting comment says its creator. A Distant Thunder is an independent 35-minute film created by Jonathan Flora, a writer and director who works for Disney.
“A Distant Thunder… is a supernatural, courtroom thriller that ... is generating awareness and dialogue about a topic surrounded by a great deal of misinformation and controversy,” said Flores.
In an online interview, Flora said, “This project is not the norm for Hollywood. It has a very specific viewpoint and it goes against the current flow of what we hear Hollywood saying...I’m amazed at how many people have no idea what partial birth abortion is.”
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Keep it clean!---FCC adds Web site to field complaints about indecent TV and radio
FCC adds Web site to field complaints
The Associated Press
Oct 8, 2005
WASHINGTON -- The Federal Communications Commission has started a Web site,
www.fcc.gov/eb/oip, to make it easier for people to file complaints about indecent programming on television and radio.
Penny Nance, a special adviser in the agency's office of strategic planning, said FCC Chairman Kevin Martin wanted to clear up confusion for consumers about how to file a complaint. With the new site, Nance said, "the American public can let their voices be heard with the click of a mouse."
The site explains that a recording or word-for-word transcript of the program is not necessary to file a complaint -- something Nance says too many consumers were confused about.
Under FCC rules and federal law, radio stations and over-the-air television channels cannot air obscene material at any time, and they cannot air indecent material between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. The rules do not apply to cable or satellite programs.
