On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 5:51 PM, Brad Beam <[email protected]> wrote:
> In an interview with “Entertainment Weekly”, Parents’ Television Council > head Tim Winter believes his crew has prevented full nudity on primetime TV. > > http://insidetv.ew.com/2014/12/23/ptc/ > I really enjoyed reading this interview. Some clarification, though: the article claims "about 1.4 million have joined the PTC <http://w2.parentstv.org/Main/> in some fashion, with about 100,000 actively donating per year." In the 1970s advocacy organizations made the strategic decision that their goals would best be served through litigation and lobbying and they made their organizational goal to raise money from the grass roots. So they offered membership to the organization available through yearly dues and when going to public officials claimed that they represented their membership, even if the only action the member took was to write a check. In the late 1990s MoveOn turned the membership model upside-down by emailing online petitions and counting anybody who responded as a MoveOn member. Later the MoveOn member would be hit up for funds on the basis of that person's specific interest as determined by which petitions s/he responded to. So MoveOn could go to public officials and claim they represented 10 times as many members as other progressive organizations based on the differing definitions of membership. So PTC has 100K dues paying members and 1.4M people who clicked on an online petition. The reader is left to determine PTC's real numerical strength. I dislike and avoid explicit violence on TV and I am uncomfortable with explicit sexuality on network shows. By that standard I sympathize with PTC's mission but the interview shows how PTC is losing influence in the short term and will end up trying to stop the tide in the long term. Plus they haven't been able to separate themselves from Brent Bozell and that legacy. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
