Television Regulation: Government vs. Parents The regulation of children's television programming has been a hot topic over the last couple of years. There was a segment on the television show, “20/20”, September 27, 1996 entitled “Addicted to the Tube” with John Stossel as the reporter. Mr. Stossel relayed a statistic which stated that children watch on the average twenty hours of television a week, which is about three hours a day. The program showed scenes of children sitting on a couch staring at the television set with blank stares completely mesmerized. The house had a television in each room. Each child had their ....

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