Peggy Charren
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Peggy Charren
| Peggy Charren | |
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| Born | March 9, 1928 |
| Nationality | American |
| Known for | Founder of Action for Children's Television[1] |
Peggy Charren (born: March 9, 1928) founded Action for Children's Television (ACT), a national child advocacy organization, in 1968, in an effort to encourage program diversity and eliminate commercial abuses in children's television programming.[2][3][4][5]
In 1989, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences awarded her its Trustees' Award. Her work with ACT culminated in the passage of the Children's Television Act of 1990, and she received a Peabody Award in 1991.[6] In 1992, she disbanded ACT, announcing that it had met the objectives she had set out to accomplish.[7] In 1995, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Although denounced as an advocate for censorship by her critics, including animation writers Steve Gerber and Mark Evanier, Charren has insisted she is an outspoken critic of censorship, and has cited her stance against the American Family Association's campaigns to ban various programs. She sits on the Board of Trustees of public broadcaster WGBH in Boston, Massachusetts.
Peggy lives in Massachusetts with her husband Stanley, a wind power entrepreneur who serves on Harvard's Kennedy School of Government Environment Council.
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Quotations
- "Violent television teaches children that violence is the solution to problems, that violent behavior can be fun and funny, that criminals and police make up a larger percentage of the population than they really do, and that violent behavior is practiced by heroes as well as by villains. But you can't say that there shouldn't be any violence on television. It is the context that is really important. Too often, children are the excuse for banning speech: words and pictures in comic books, movies, classic stories, textbooks and television. But government censorship is not the way to protect children from inappropriate content."
References
- ^ O'Connor, John J. (1990-02-20). "Critic's Notebook; Insidious Elements in Television Cartoons". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/1990/02/20/movies/critic-s-notebook-insidious-elements-in-television-cartoons.html?scp=5&sq=He-Man+and+the+Masters+of+the+Universe&st=nyt. Retrieved 2010-08-13.
- ^ O'Connor, John J. (1990-02-20). "Critic's Notebook; Insidious Elements in Television Cartoons". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/1990/02/20/movies/critic-s-notebook-insidious-elements-in-television-cartoons.html?scp=5&sq=He-Man+and+the+Masters+of+the+Universe&st=nyt. Retrieved 2010-08-13.
- ^ Molotsky, Irvin (1988-11-07). "Reagan Vetoes Bill Putting Limits On TV Programming for Children". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/1988/11/07/us/reagan-vetoes-bill-putting-limits-on-tv-programming-for-children.html?scp=3&sq=Action%20for%20Children's%20Television&st=cse. Retrieved 2010-08-13.
- ^ "Ms. Kidvid Calls It Quits". Time. 1992-01-20. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,974700,00.html. Retrieved 2010-08-14.
- ^ "Why Children's Tv Suffers In Silence". Orlando Sentinel. http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1986-05-08/lifestyle/0220150243_1_charren-act-tale-theatre. Retrieved 2010-10-19.
- ^ "KTLA Wins Peabody Award for King Video : Awards: The station is cited for its 'courage . . . without sensationalizing the event or its aftermath.'". The Los Angeles Times. http://articles.latimes.com/1992-04-04/entertainment/ca-176_1_peabody-award. Retrieved 2010-12-17.
- ^ Lawson, Carol (1989-06-15). "Toys: Girls Still Apply Makeup, Boys Fight Wars". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/1989/06/15/garden/toys-girls-still-apply-makeup-boys-fight-wars.html?scp=8&sq=the%20real%20ghostbusters&st=cse&pagewanted=2. Retrieved 2010-08-13.
Sources
External links
- Biography from John Vivian's "The Media of Mass Communication"
- Interview with Peggy Charren by 360KID on 360Blog, May 2008
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