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  ARCHIVE ISSUE | "The fall(en) TV season" September 18, 1999, Vol. 14, No. 36

Don't look now

COVER STORY | By Gene Edward Veith

When executives unveiled their television ratings system in 1997, WORLD predicted that far from making TV more family-friendly, it would worsen an already bad TV lineup. As happened with movie ratings, warning labels, we believed, would only provide a cover-and even an advertisement-for ever raunchier programming (see WORLD, Feb. 8, 1997). Now new studies by the Parents Television Council bear out this prediction: Sex, profanity, violence, and other kinds of immorality have soared and invaded even the "family hour" that was supposed to be a safe haven for children's viewing. Don't look now: A new season is upon us.   More >>

ArrowAdditional Cover Stories Out of this world Roy Maynard
Two sure-fire hits are shocking by today's abysmal television standards-but each for different reasons More >>
ArrowFeatures Burned out Roy Maynard
National | Burning Man art party turns out to be more meaningless than offensive, irrelevant than irreverent More >>
Gridiron greatness
National | Perseverance pays off for three college stars More >>
Native tongue lashing Chris Stamper
National | Watch your language on the Net, watch your neighbor via the Net, and who's watching you on the Net? More >>
ArrowDispatches News & Reviews The Editors Quotables
ArrowReviews Music: Duke and Hoagy at 100
Music | Enjoy listening to the leadership secrets of Duke Ellington, sacred musician More >>
Planned obsolescence Chris Stamper
Culture | Beanie Babies, Campbell Soup cans, and computers pass away as the grass More >>
ArrowVoices A rip, not a fray Joel Belz
A rip, not a fray More >>
Practice hospitality Margie Haack
Practice hospitality More >>
Mailbag Guest Columnist God's mercy Marvin Olasky
God's mercy More >>
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