Campbell Brown
...Another helpful proposal (click here) would be to institute a real movie ratings system. As anyone who has recently seen PG-13 movies knows, the level of violence in them has increased to the point of making the Motion Picture Association of America's voluntary rating system meaningless. Like the FCC's rules for television, MPAA ratings emphasize sex and language over violence. The result? Feature films like Vin Diesel's "Fast Five"—which includes people being shot, blood spurting, necks being broken and horrific car crashes—receive a PG-13....
How many years, Mike? How many years?
Will it ever get traction? It will never happen. Year after year after year of asking by the Left and it never gets consideration.
And where is Dodd on the issue of screen violence? Dodging bullets about Anne Hathaway and Jennifer Lawrence.
10:52 AM PST 3/8/2013 by Etan Vlessing
OTTAWA -- There was no ensnaring MPAA (click here) chairman Chris Dodd in Canada's Anne Hathaway -vs.- Jennifer Lawrence debate during a visit this week.
“They both obviously did a terrific job with their movies, but I’m not getting in the middle,” Dodd declared. “But I thought Bradley Cooper was rather good. How’s that for ducking your question?”“I’m so glad I came for that first question,” the former U.S. senator said when asked during an keynote interview why Canadian viewers of the recent Oscar telecast hated Hathaway and loved Lawrence as both picked up major Academy Awards....
