The Children are Watching
Obscenities telecast to millions of America's homes now cause not a ripple of protest Condensed from CHICAGO TRIBUNE BOB GREENE MILLIONS OF FAMILIES Sat down in their living rooms one evening last August to watch a live Madonna concert from France, telecast on the cable network Home Box Office. Because Madonna is such a huge international star-and because the telecast was heavily promoted and aired in prime time on a week-end millions of children certainly watched with their parents. What happened on all those screens was that Madonna repeatedly used the one obscene word that has been routinely barred from the public airwaves. Later in the show she writhed on a bed and simulated masturbation. She also laughingly used common street terms for male genitals. We live in an anything-goes age, so the show's witless and purposely vulgar content was not surprising. The language itself was nothing that has not been heard...