To view the press release and report: http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2001/04/youthviol.htm -Declan ****** FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Pia Pialorsi 202-224-2670/McCain Tuesday, April 24, 2001 Andy Davis 202-224-6654/Hollings Erik Hotmire 202-224-0327/Brownback Patricia Murphy 202-224-0082/Cleland McCain, Hollings, Brownback, Cleland Issue Statement on FTC Report Washington, DC Senators John McCain (R-AZ), Fritz Hollings (D-SC), Sam Brownback (R-KS), and Max Cleland (D-GA) today made the following statement on the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) report released today on marketing violence to children: "We'd like to thank the Federal Trade Commission for its continued efforts to monitor the marketing of inappropriate material to minors. We are pleased that the movie and video game industries appear to be making efforts to improve their marketing practices, but as the FTC report points out, they could do more. We hope the more comprehensive report the FTC will prepare for release this fall will show improvement. "Certainly the industry with the most room for improvement is the music recording industry. The FTC report suggests that it has done almost nothing to stop or reduce the marketing of inappropriate material to minors and has reneged on the announcement it made last fall not to advertise explicit-content labeled recordings in publications, Web sites, and other commercial outlets whose primary market demographic was aged 16 or younger. If anyone believes that our concerns and the concerns of American parents can be eliminated simply with opportunistic pledges, they are sorely mistaken. This report demonstrates that while improvements have been made in some sectors, the allure of the marketing dollar appears to pose a challenge to self-regulation." # # # ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if it remains intact. To subscribe, visit http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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