TV Watch Takes On Conservative TV Watchers

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Tired of being picked on by religious media watchdog groups, big media is fighting back with its own advocacy group. NBC Universal, Viacom and News Corp. have launched the group TV Watch to "advocate parental controls and oppose government intervention" into TV programming, the Dallas Morning News reports. TV Watch, "an unusual mix of corporations, creative types and conservative, free-market proponents," will go head-to-head with Brent Bozell's conservative Parents Television Council. Several media companies, Americans for Tax Reform and the Creative Coalition have provided seed money for TV Watch, whose executive director, Jim Dyke, is a former communications director for the Republican National Committee.

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Dallas Morning News, August 21, 2005
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stephane mot replied on

I'm sure Murdoch is good at opposing government intervention into TV programming : his game is rather media intervention into government programming.

I wonder if TV Watch can do any better than watching TV... more anxious to see the adaptation of Alan Moore's "V for Vendetta"*.

As far as the internet watch is concerned : tvwatch.org belongs to a Taiwanese citizen, tv-watch.org to a Briton, tv-watch.com to a Hong Kong company (the only active URL to date) and tvwatch.com to Tucows.

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* an old graphic novel dealing with propaganda in an alternative and fascist UK - worth reading folks, especially if the book turns out to be as poorly adapted as "From Hell". After that, you won't read the same way the UK tabloïds' call for testimonies after London july bombings ("you're our ears, you're our eyes").