Posted
8:19 PM
by Gene
News hacks can bloviate until they're blue in the ledger books about
the "need" for more detailed child-suitability ratings for entertainment, but in the end they're doing it only for themselves; in the best traditions of synergy they protect their own freedom to act with impunity while covering themselves with a flashing neon-lit fig leaf. There's no difference between the Jack the Wizened Prune's ratings system and the powerless, self-serving ombudsmen at most newspapers; both are intended to placate, and to appease, and to create a fiction of responsible behavior, not to serve the public.