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    "ocrText": "It is a topic I feel very strongly about, and I want to expand on\nthe thoughts I shared with some of you at the National PTA\nLegislative Conference earlier this year.\nSpecifically, I want to talk about television. Like it or\nnot, and some days I do and some days I don't, TV is a fact of\nlife. Hundreds of channels with everything from up-to-the-date-\nX\nnews to 24-hour-a-day weather channels to talk shows, to violent\nmovies, to what everyone finds as we use our remote control\ndevices. And for many of our children, those television images\nare disturbing, they are what some call \"junk food for the eyes.\"\nAnd we have in every home in America children who are being\ninfluenced by the images and ideas that come into those homes\nthrough our television sets.\nNow for those of us who are parents, trying to raise\nhealthy, well-adjusted, compassionate children, it is easy\nsometimes to feel helpless against such a barrage of images and\nnegative influences. But, in no small part due to the National\nPTA's advocacy and leadership on this issue, we are finally on\nthe road to changing this situation. Let me thank you for\nworking with the National Cable Television Association in the\nFamily and Community Critical Viewing Project, which is helping\nparents to control the effects of television violence and\ncommercialism on their children.\nThe President and the Vice President have long supported\nefforts to give parents the tools to make television a positive\ninfluence in their children's lives. And I believe that these\npast few months have marked a hopeful turning point for families\nand their relationships to those TV sets in their homes.\nEarlier this year, the President successfully advocated for\nwhat is called a v-chip in TV sets. It is a device that parents\ncan use to block out programming that they consider\nobjectionable. It is totally within the authority of the\nparents. In February, at a White House meeting, The President\nhelped persuade the nation's television broadcasters and\nproducers to establish a voluntary ratings system that will\ninform parents about the content of shows they plan to air.\nThat means that when the v-chip is operational, in just a few\nyears, and the ratings system is going, parents will be able to\nmake judgments by looking at this rating system and then\nprogramming the TV set to decide whether or not a program will be\npermitted to be viewed in their homes.\nBut parents don't just want to tune out bad shows, they also\nwant to tune in good ones for their children. American families\nneed more and better programming for children. This is\nespecially true for elementary school-age children. A study\nreleased by the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg Public\nPolicy Center showed that while 75 percent of programming aimed\n4"
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