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Copyright 1996 Federal Information Systems Corporation
Federal News Service
MARCH 1, 1996, 9:53 A.M. EST FRIDAY
SECTION: WHITE HOUSE BRIEFING
LENGTH: 10472 words
HEADLINE: PRESIDENTIAL ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION
REGARDING TELEVISION VIOLENCE
WITH PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON
FIRST LADY HILLARY CLINTON
VICE PRESIDENT AND MRS. GORE
AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS
THE OLD EXECUTIVE OFFICE BUILDING
BODY:
VICE PRESIDENT GORE: Well, ladies and gentlemen, the president and the first
lady and my wife, Tipper, and I would like to welcome you here to this office.
And traditionally this has been the office of the vice president since way back,
since this became the Executive Office Building. And these families with their
children have been invited here this morning for a discussion with the president
and us here about the historic turning point in the relationship between
families and the mass media.
As you know, President Clinton fought for, got passed in the Congress and then
signed into law a real breakthrough measure called the V-chip, which makes it
possible for parents to exercise more control over what their young children see
on the television set.
Then yesterday, in response to President Clinton's invitation, the leaders of
the entire entertainment industry came to the White House, and after a two-hour
discussion with the president, announced their unanimous agreement to put in
place a voluntary rating system for every program that appears on television,
whether it's broadcast or cable, and to electronically encode that program with
al signal that will interact with this electronic device called the V-chip, which
will enable parent's to say this particular kind of programming is not
appropriate for my children in my judgment, and so when I'm not there, they're
not going to be able to watch that.
Some of the parents who are gathered here today, and some of the children, too,
have been thinking about this issue and this particular solution, in some cases
for quite some time. Some of them participated in the family conference that
Tipper and I host each year, and that the president spoke at last summer. Some
of them have been featured in the first lady's book about what families can do,
"It Takes a Village." And this discussion this morning we hope will shed some
more light on the importance of the turning point yesterday.
And, of course, to lead the discussion and to explain why this is so important
for our country, the president of our country, President Clinton.
PRESIDENT CLINTON: Thank you very much, Mr. Vice President. And I might say,
aren't we all glad to be in this big, beautiful office here? (Laughter.) I love
to come over here.
I want to thank all of you for coming, and to say to you and to the members of
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