Volume 2008,
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NEWS
Child
prostitutes sell themselves on Craigslist
CNN, Veronica De La Cruz and David Fitzpatrick,
6.27.2008
Digital porn on the iPhone
One News Now, Jeff Johnson, 6.27.2008
Is .Sex the New .Com?
ABC, Russel Goldman, 6.26.2008
Internet Providers Block Child Pornography
CBS, 6.23.2008
“What’s Obscene? Google Could Have an Answer”
New York Times, Matt Richtel, 6.24.2008
The Supreme Court's Recent Child Pornography Decision: Why Justices Souter and Ginsburg Dissented
FindLaw, Julie Hilden, 6.23.2008
First prosecution under New York’s sex trafficking law
NewsDay, Anthony M. Destefano, 6.19.2008
Researchers Issue Report on Human Trafficking
Newswise, 6.16.2008
Strip club opponents will argue case before Supreme Court
News & Observer, Titan Barksdale, 6.13.2008
Sexually oriented businesses can harm communities
Dodge City Daily Globe, 6.13.2008
Judge suspends L.A. obscenity trial after conceding
his website had sexual images
LA Times, 6.12.2008
UN General Assembly tackles human trafficking
UN News Centre, 6.3.2008
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LAW REVIEWS
(Abstracts excerpted from
articles, citations omitted)
The
Effectiveness of Media Rating Systems in Preventing
Children's Exposure to Violent and Sexually Explicit
Media Content
Patrick M. Garry, and Candice J. Spurlin, Oklahoma
City University Law Review, Vol. 32, No. 2, 2007
Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1139167
This article states that most
forms of electronic media entertainment now carry
some sort of voluntary rating system. Television,
motion pictures, musical recordings, and video
games are all subject to a self-imposed industry
rating system. While these rating systems recognize
that there is much media entertainment programming
that is unsuitable for children; the imposition
of these rating systems also serves a self-interest
of the various media industries. By adopting some
type of regulatory system, self-imposed though
it may be, the media industry hopes to avoid or
forestall more stringent or demanding governmental
regulations.
The majority of parents strongly support the
efforts of Congress to protect children from harmful
and offensive entertainment speech. However, most
efforts by Congress to regulate violent and indecent
media programming are struck down by the courts
as violating the First Amendment.
The study described in this article, although
narrowly focused, suggests that the voluntary
measures undertaken by the media are not nearly
as successful in achieving their stated goals
as might otherwise be claimed. The results of
this empirical study indicate that children are
indeed being exposed to various media products
that, according to the rating system, are inappropriate
for those children. Despite the media’s
continual promotion of its various rating systems,
the present study suggests those systems may be
ineffective at best. Moreover, the rating systems
could actually cause harm in that as parents rely
on them to prevent their children’s exposure
to unwanted media programming.
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