Jack Valenti
Jack Valenti
Jack Joseph Valentiwas a longtime president of the Motion Picture Association of America. During his 38-year tenure in the MPAA, he created the MPAA film rating system, and he was generally regarded as one of the most influential pro-copyright lobbyists in the world...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth5 September 1921
CityHouston, TX
CountryUnited States of America
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We want to tell American parents that they and they alone have total power to control every hour of television programming that comes into their home.
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We're hard at work trying to make parents better understand that they have total control today over what individual programs they allow into their homes. We want to show a closer rapport between the TV ratings system and the movie ratings system.
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Serious efforts are underway to try to bring the domestic problems under control.
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To have something happen that never before in our history have we ever borne witness to or imagined, that hits very deep in the entrails of this country.
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you begin to torment and torture the First Amendment.
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This was about contributing Hollywood's creative imagination and their persuasion skills to help in this war effort so that one day Americans can lead normal lives again,
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I visited the labs at Caltech, and theyre running an experiment called FAST where they can bring down a DVD-quality movie in 5 seconds. The director told me it could be operative in the market in 18 months. Well, my face blanched.
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The same percentage also report they do not want government to step in and fix this problem. From these facts about the public's revealed opinion, we present a common sense plan that will convey to American parents that they have, right now, all the weaponry they need to control all the TV programming that enters their home.