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    "ocrText": "Excerpted Statements regarding Children's Television\nPresident Clinton\nJuly 18, 1996 (Remarks By The President At Ceremony For Boys And Girls Nation)\nThis month we're challenging members of the entertainment industry who have done a\ngreat job on this rating to come to the White House to talk about improving the quality\nand quantity of children's programming. So the industry is doing it's part.\nThe truth is that what we need now is for the government to do it's part. The Federal\nCommunications Commission has had before it for a long time now a measure that would\nrequire broadcasters to put a minimum of three hours a week of quality educational\nchildren's programming on It's less than two percent of the nation's air time.\nThe initiative is stalled, and some people have opposed it. But the airwaves clearly,\nunder our law, are designed to promote the public interest. I can't imagine anything we\ncould do that would better promote it than to put more quality educational programming\nfor children on television. So I'd like to ask all of you to support that. And I hope very\nmuch that the Federal Communications Commission will finally act on it.\nJune 11,1996 (Remarks By The President To The Community Of Glendale)\n\"And today, I want to formally reissue an invitation to the people from the entertainment\nindustry involved in television to come back to the White House before the end of July\nto discuss that. If we can control, by ratings, give parents the power to deal with what\ntheir children are watching on television, surely, surely, we can agree to increase the\ncontent of children's television that goes to education.\"\nSaturday, March 2, 1996 (Radio Address By The President To The Nation)\nLike the movie ratings have done for 27 years, the ratings for television will help parents\nto guide their children's entertainment choices. The system will provide families with a\nstandard they can rely on from show to show, from channel to channel. Parents are the\nbest judges of what their children should and shouldn't see, and this new rating system\nwill help them to make those critical judgments. The best programming director for our\nchildren is a parent:\nAt my meeting with the entertainment industry, we also discussed the need for more\nprogramming that is suitable for children, and that is educational and attractive to them. I\nwant to preserve public broadcasting and the innovation it has. brought in educational\nshows for children\nWe take the Children's Television Act seriously. We want to\ncontinue to work with the industry to do the very best we can for our children in both\nquantity and quality of children's programming."
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