Families all over America spend evenings together watching t.v. This seems to be one of Americas favorite pastimes. But with all the violence that is involved with television programs the question arises on weither or not network television should be censored. It seems unlogical for theses censoring to take place. Network television should not be censored because of our freedom of speech rights, more violence is on cable, and it is the parents responsibility to monitor what children are viewing not the networks.I do not favor censorship and I am jealous of my First Amendment Rights, Eron pg 617 To evoke censorship onto network television would most definitely take away our first amendment right. We as Americans deserve the right to freedom of speech. Many people fought long and hard so that we, as Americans, have such rights as they are stated in the Bill of Rights. To start censorship on Network television may seem like a small threat to our rights, but will become so much more. With censorship television shows and producers would not be able to freely show what they want their viewers to see. It in turn is the exact same as telling someone they can not say something they wish to say. Censorship may stop our children from seeing violent acts on t.v., but in return will take away one of our most precious rights as Americans.In addition to loss of one of our basic rights, it seems unlogical to censor network television when the most violent programs come from cable television. The acts of violence mostly show more evidentially in movies made for the box office. Films such as Natural Born Killers and Die Hard are made with such content of violence to attract audiences to the movies. We can not deny that action provokes humans. These movies rearely, if ever, come on Network television. They are more present in cable station such as HBO and Showtime. Therefore, if a parent does not want their child overly exposed to viole...
