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Before the new television season started last fall, writers and producers pressured network censors to again lower standards as to what could be aired over American television. Said one newspaper account at the time: "(Network) executives say that writers are submitting scripts for shows that include every crude word imaginable . . . If the experience of the last year or two is any indication, there will be many heated discussions about them and, probably, some new leeways granted." And indeed there were. The process that some have described as "defining deviancy down" continued.
A decade ago movie critic Michael Medved wrote Hollywood vs. America: Popular Culture and the War on Traditional Values, an exposé that details the undermining of Western society through amoral standards of behavior promoted by the movie, television and music industries. Although his book is 10 years old, the statistics and anecdotal evidence he cites are still shocking. The problem he cited then has grown worse, with the media's standards at a far lower level than they were in 1992.
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