Cable Family Packages: Not Good Enough
Amelia Wigton
December 16, 2005

The same cable companies that provide the public with pervasively despicable programming announced this week that they will deal with cable indecency problems by creating “family-friendly tiers, or channel packages, where they decide what is appropriate programming for families.

Cable companies that air some of the most graphically immoral material in television history cannot be trusted to turn around and successfully create a family-friendly tier, said Lanier Swann, Director of Government Relations at Concerned Women for America. Parents must ask themselves if they really want the same cable millionaires who produced trash like Nip/Tuck, Party at the Palms and Queer Eye for the Straight Guy to define family-friendly. The rest