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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedD.C. lawmakers target Hollywood, music and games.(federal government threatens to investigate marketing practices of the motion picture, music and videogame industries which use violence to attract young audiences)
Video Business, May, 1999 by Stern, Christopher
Spurred by the recent killings at a Colorado high school, the federal government is threatening to go after the movie, music and videogame industries the way it has tobacco. Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) said last week that he may ask regulators to subpoena marketing documents from studios, record companies and game producers in an effort to find evidence that they purposefully use violence to attract youthful audiences.
At a May 4 Senate Commerce Committee hearing titled "Marketing Violence to Children," Hatch said he has "recently considered asking the Federal Trade Commission or the Department of Justice to investigate the marketing practices of the videogame, music and movie industry." Testifying before the...
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