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December 21, 1999
it is good to be here during this ~oliday s~ason at the Boys;
and Girls' Club - which is one of my favorite places anywhere,
and especially this new one - it is so great. I want to .
congratulate everybody who wotked on it and created this
fabulous facility .
As you can see we've got a won<:lerful group of people to talk
about some important issues. I d6n't think it is any surprise
for any parent or teacher or any citizen really in New York or
in our country today. We're going to be' focusing on the topic
of youth violence and some oftlie specific things we think· we
can do about youth violence. It lias been all too much in the
news and.there are so many tragfc incidents that each ofus
can point to those that make the headlines and those we
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So I am hoping that we will hav~ a real good conversation and
·perhaps come up with some ideas about what we could do
together to deal with youth violdnce. I know that many of you
in this room are leaders both of young people and in the larger
community here in Oyster Bay·~d Nassau County. We are
really hoping to have everyone participate as much as .
possible. I want to thank everyone who is on the panel.
Now 1 will introduce them to yop in juSt a minute. I am
delighted that Tom DiNapoli is rusO here. Tom you know has
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been a leader on the issue of me9ia violence in the State
Assembly.
I want to focus on one thing that I fmd especially frustrating
about media violence. I broughtiwith me a chart of the· different
ways that people in the industries rank violence - so that a
parent who is a conscientious P¥ent looking for information
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You've got TV violence. You'v~ got movie violence. You've got
video violence. And if you were to try to understand what you
should do as a mom or dad and you were going to try and tell
your children what they couldn't see and you were going to try
to supervise, here is what you'd be up against: for movies
�you've got everything from G, PO, PG-B, R, and NC-17. We
are already into the third alphabet soup .
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. Then you've got premium cable ~elevision which for reasons
that I don't understand had to ad9pt a wholly different rating
system: MV, V, GV, RP, AL,.GL, PLN, AC, SC all of which
mean different things than we m~ant for the movie rating
system. Th€!n you've got the TV rating system: TVY, TVY7,
TVY7FE that means tends tocorpbat or fantasy violence,
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Then you've got video games wi~h a wholly different rating
system. You've got EC for early bhildhood then you've got E
for everyone, TMAO for adults qnly. You've got video games
that are Level 4, Level 3, Level 2, Level, 1 and Level 0: Then·
you've got music which is parentpl advisory and then you've
gotonline which.is totally confu~ing; So when you add:aU of
that up it is no wonder that parents feel that theycanhardly
begin to try t6 exercise parental ~uthority and discretion over
what their children are exposed t'1>'
I want to begin the conversation ~oday by making a simple
recommendation and really a challenge, I guessyou'could
say that it is-I think we can do a lot better. I would like jo
challenge all of the industries to create one simple rating
system for all movies, all cable shows, all broadcast TV
shows, all records, and all videosj games.
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In whatever medium it appears violence is violence and we
need a much clearer understandi~g of what it is that our
children are being exposed to and the rating should be the
same. Parents needclear guidanc~ not alphabet soup like I
just recited to you.
I would certainly work to make tJ:lat a reality in the Senate and
in any other way that I could to make industry representatives
come together to try to come up ~th a single clear simple
rating system: We've now got the l V-chip on new TV sets. We
are beginning to assert some control over content. But we .
have made it much too confusing and impossible for most, '
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I want to turn now to someone wl10 has gotten ahead of the
curve on this issue. Tom has intrdduced a bill in the New York
Assembly that will begin the process of bringing some
common sense control over video games. Tom and I were
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�talking about this earlier - he actually went to an arcade.
How many of the adults in this room have ever been to ,one of
those video arcades and actually[seen the games? Well it is
a very revealing and sobering experience and you couldn't
help but to be, well I couldn't he~p but to be, upset when I read
about the two boys from Colum~ine being obsessed with the
game Doom and there are so m~y others ~ Mortal Combat
all of the rest of them that are out there.
Tom has· a very specific legislative proposal that he has made
in the Assembly and I'd like him,to talk about that and some
of his concerns about video. violence.
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