Consumer issues are dominating the headlines from Capitol Hill. It's been tires, tires, tires for the last few weeks. Today, it's movies, music and video games. Marketplace's Rachael Myrow has more. Many parents take their children to R-rated films.
Many parents allow other adults to take their children to R-rated films.
But the decision-making authority of whether or not your children enter that theater is yours and yours alone to make. Most of the major studio heads did not testify today, which raised the hackles of Democratic Senator Joe Lieberman, who took time off from the vice-presidential campaign trail to attend the hearing. The FTC report raises serious questions, and this committee, not to mention America's parents, deserve serious answers, not distant excuses. After all, much has been said of the industry's affinity for the Democrats this campaign season and there may be a reluctance to rock the boat too much. Whether or not that's true, it raises an interesting question.