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Mixed Messages: A Recent Harvard School Of Public ...
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006 (message contributor)
Mixed Messages: A recent Harvard School of Public Health study confirmed what entertainment consumers already suspected: “ratings creep” in the last decade has allowed more profanity, violence and sexual content in the same movie ratings categories. At the same time the FTC imposed more than $7.7 million in fines for indecency last year. (NY Times 1/7/05)
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