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    "ocrText": "Page 15\nFederal News Service, MARCH 1, 1996\nworry about them; they' 11 get ready for bed,\" and turn on the TV. And (then ?)\nit's 9:00; send them to bed. And I'd go over there at 5:00 in the evening,\nthey'd literally turn on the television at 6:00 and just sit there for three\nhours. And you know, I think, \"It's a baby-sitting job, Tokay?\" But you know,\nwhen it finally got to me and (really ?) thinking about it, these kinds could be\nreading in books or, you know (laughing) -- doing their homework possibly,\nyou know. Something has got to be -- there's got to be a line between where\ntelevision is useful and informative, and where it's just mindless activity.\nPRESIDENT CLINTON: (To another participant.) Do you watch television a lot?\nYOUNG BOY: I don't watch it as much as most of my peers because I'm somewhat\nbusy, considering my age, because I play two sports. I do street hockey with my\nfriends, and I fence, and I spend a lot of time in a creek near our house. But\nI do watch some news. I watch the news, one or two cartoons, and sometimes I\nwatch \"ER.\"\nBut I know a lot of my friends basically base their lives on TV. (Scattered\nchuckles.)\nPRESIDENT CLINTON: They do?\nYOUNG BOY: That's all it is. They go home, turn on the tube, and at 10:00 they\ngo to bed. That's it.\nAnd then, during school, that's all they talk about, and they base their lives\non it. And they think everything they see on TV is perfectly fine and it's how\nthey should act, and a lot of it isn't. A lot of it is the exact opposite of\nhow they should be acting, yet they base\nPRESIDENT CLINTON: But you've actually seen that in your friends who believe\nthat\nYOUNG BOY: Yeah.\nPRESIDENT CLINTON:\nthat they (they're active ?); they model what they do\nbased on what they see on television? YOUNG BOY : Yeah, they model themselves\nafter Will Smith or Bart Simpson, and they act just like them. And they end up\ngetting in a lot of trouble, too. And they never realize it, because they\nfigure, \"oh, well, it's okay because I see it on TV every night.\"\nAnd I like the V-chip because it doesn't automatically do anything, but it gives\nyou the power, it gives the parents the power to control it so that kids won't\ndo that. And what I'm hoping is that they can block out the bad programming,\nand if nobody's watching it, then they're liable to put good programming in\nthere because they have to get their income somehow. So\nPRESIDENT CLINTON: (To another participant.) What about you? (Laughter, cross\ntalk.) (Inaudible) -- you're 11, right?\nYOUNG BOY: Yeah.\nPRESIDENT CLINTON: Okay.\nYOUNG BOY: And I -- my sister watches TV sort of like -- she 11 sneak away when\nshe's done with her homework and watch TV, but I hardly ever watch TV.\nI like the computer much better than the TV. I play on the computer for hours\nand hours. I like\nMS. Is there going to be a V-chip for a computer? (Laughter.)\nPRESIDENT CLINTON: Well, (many have ?) thought about that because that's going\nto be a big issue.\nVICE PRESIDENT GORE: Yeah, let me interject (inaudible) on that. The\nindustry group and the computer industry that has put together this system for\nrating computer games just made an announcement yesterday that they're coming up\nwith their own industry- based approach to give parents the ability to screen\nthe Internet to prevent material that's inappropriate for young children to come\ninto home computers on the Internet. Now, some of the online providers, like\nAmerica On Line, already do that, but there needs to be this industry-wide"
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