Capitol Journal - Rating Rock and Roll
Capitol Journal - Rating Rock and Roll
Inside Dallas convention hall hosting annual National Radio Broadcasters Convention. VS of adult Caucasian men and women speaking with each other at different exhibits. Man bent over, typing at computer under "Arbitron Ratings" exhibit. Adult Caucasian male and female press corps covering panel discussion on "porn rock" at Annual National Radio Broadcasters Convention in Dallas.
Capitol Journal - Rating Rock and Roll
Panel discussion at Annual National Radio Broadcasters Convention in Dallas. Line of adult Caucasian men and women listening. Tipper Gore, Parents Music Research Center: "We are specifically asking the record industry to voluntarily label explicitly sexual and violent material according to an industry wide set of criteria." Stanley Gortikov, President of the Recording Industry Association of America: "We will not rate the 25,000 new recorded songs we release each year as requested by the PMRC. We would not even know how, let alone trust appointed experts to do so. By who's standards would such ratings be determined? For what audience ages? For what religious, geographic, or societal backgrounds? For what degree of permissiveness or structure?" Chuck Ductoty, Program Director at WIYY-FM Baltimore: "The unconcerned parent is going to be unconcerned whether we put a label on the front of a record or not. If they don't care, they're not going to care."
Capitol Journal - Rating Rock and Roll
Panel discussion at Annual National Radio Broadcasters Convention in Dallas. William O'Shaughnessy, President of WVOX-AM/WRTN-FM New York: "Perhaps we're considering, what Don West would call, the more cosmic issue of who owns America. And is it possible to restrict language in a democratic world? The Parents Music Resource Center seems to me to want a world that is uncomplicated, without pain for their children, not obscene, and not profane. But the hard real truth is that their children, our children, in their private lives, are meeting the very influences that we're trying to restrict." Tipper Gore, Parents Music Research Center: "What responsibility must your industry accept in a free society? We hope you will join us in addressing this issue with the seriousness that it deserves. And thank you very much." Adult, predominantly Caucasian, male and female audience applauds.
Capitol Journal - Rating Rock and Roll
Panel discussion at Annual National Radio Broadcasters Convention in Dallas. Susan Baker, Parents Music Research Center, providing an interview to three other women; Channel 5 camera filming. She states her belief that the radio industry has a responsibility because they are using the airwaves, and they, the people in the community, are responding by saying they've gone too far. Two adult Caucasian men attending the Annual National Radio Broadcasters Convention in Dalla; one of the men, saying: "The most frightening thing is the extra political aspects of this, of having senators' wives getting involved in very sensitive artistic questions which do have moral implications."