by Allie Martin
(AgapePress) – A veteran analyst of network television says he is not surprised that prime time producers are trying to put more sex and foul language into their shows.
As reported over the holiday weekend by The New York Times, Aaron Sorkin, executive producer of the NBC drama The West Wing, has announced he wants a character in that series to use the Lord’s name in vain. And executives at CBS says writers are submitting scripts for
programs that include every crude word imaginable.
Ed Vitagliano, director of research for the American Family Association, says network television is in a moral freefall. “A number of taboos that have been just shattered are just kind of mind boggling,” he says. “This latest report about the new fall season is no surprise for people who’ve been paying attention.”
Network officials say they must use more foul language and include even more graphic scenes in order to compete with cable programming.
“Network television may be a lost cause,” the researcher says, “[and] as far as the producers and writers of some of these shows, a great many of them, I’m afraid, have those types of things in their hearts. As a result, they just spew forth this stuff — and that’s why these kinds of vulgarities and overt and explicit sexuality and violence appear on these programs.”
Vitagliano encourages concerned viewers to contact advertisers and let them know they will not support companies sponsoring “trash TV.”
(This column courtesy of Agape Press.)
