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    "ocrText": "Page 20\nFederal News Service, MARCH 1, 1996\nBut the Children's Television Act, which was passed a couple of years ago, also\ncalls upon producers of television programs to develop more and better programs\nthat will be appealing to children in a positive way.\nAnd I just want to make two points and then ask anybody who wants to comment to\ncomment.\nThere were two interesting ideas which came out yesterday. One is the people\nwho were there -- not us; the vice president and I just watched but in the\nroom there, in the industry, there was a genuine argument about whether\nparticularly younger people would be as likely to watch any kind of educational\nprogram as they would sort of a violent cartoon or something. And there was a\nwoman there from the Discovery Channel who was a very powerful advocate said,\n\"That is not true. If you make education entertaining, it will be watched.\" And\nshe gave some examples. That's the first thing, shouldn't -- would you like to\nhave more positive programming on television?\nThe second thing I think's important to point out, one of you kind of inched up\nto it when you were talking about the Internet, young people on the computer.\nAll these technologies -- the vice president knows a hundred times more about\nthis than I do but it looks to me like they're all merging. I mean, it won't\nbe very long before you can call up any movie you want on your computer, and\nbefore a lot of the things you see on your television screen are interactive. So\nthat I think that basically we're watching we're seeing a process -- and\nthat, by the way, will engage more young people, because as they become more\ncomputer literate, if they have interactive programs on television, it will\nbring them up, or if they can call movies up on the computer it will so we\nreally need to also focus on the positive things that they we ought to be doing\nfor our children.\nAnd so -- so what do you think? Do you think if there were would would\nyoung people be just as likely to watch more constructive programs if they were\ngenuinely entertaining? Or do you believe there's just an inherent\npredisposition to watch the violence?\nYOUNG MAN: I think that most definitely fun, educational television is -- it has\nbeen and will continue to be widely accepted by young children because young\nchildren are so fascinated by basically everything, and if you fascinate them\nwith something that's going to benefit them and something that's going to make\nthem more aware of what's going on, it opens so many more new doors and windows\nof opportunity for them.\nWatching an educational show about animals, for instance, can spark a child's\ninterest in biology or some kind of science related to animals. And just --\nI\nmean that's such a fascinating field. And it can give a child like sort of a\nboost into a lifetime of educational fulfillment in terms of TV and their\nstudies, and just basically their lives.\nMRS. CLINTON: One of the things that was said yesterday that I did find\ninteresting is -- the teenagers, I'd like to respond to this -- is that, you\nknow, the movie industry, with few exceptions, mostly the Disney animated\nfeatures, finds that a G rating is a kiss of death for most movies because\nteenagers won't go to see a G-rated movie.\nAnd in fact, most teen-agers won't go to see a PG-rated movie. And they go to\nPG-13, and that's one of the reasons that the category was split, apparently.\nBut one of the -- one of the people at the meeting yesterday said that they're\n-- you know, that they are concerned that when they get to older kids, who are a\nbig market for consumer goods, that the older kids will have more control over\nthe V-chip, because their parents will think they have more authority and right"
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