Eddie Fritts is president of the National Association of Broadcasters. But most parents lining up at the microphones were disappointed, both with both the programming and the ratings that accompany it. I sat and watched with my child an episode of Daffy Duck I thought was pretty safe. I watched Daffy Duck talk a bull down in his self-esteem, hand him a handgun, and convince him to commit suicide. The bull was this close when he realized what he was doing.
Children can t even watch cartoons anymore.
One of the problems the people of Peoria are telling us, and one that I certainly can understand, is not so much being critical of the rating system itself but of the programs which the ratings system rates. I am as utterly flabbergasted as you are by some of the programs that I see and some of the movies that I see. Please understand that. We are not censors. We are trying only to rate what is on that screen.