TV Watch Talks: New Media and Technology Can Help Parents Make TV Viewing Decisions

TV Watch Talks: New Media and Technology Can Help Parents Make TV Viewing Decisions

Executive Director, Jim Dyke, Will Serve as Panelist for the Progress & Freedom Foundation's June 20th Book Launch

CHARLESTON, S.C., June 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Jim Dyke, Executive Director of TV Watch, will be a panelist for The Progress & Freedom Foundation's upcoming event, Parental Controls and Online Child Protection: A Survey of Tools and Methods. The event will explore and discuss the many tools and methods that are available to parents in today's media.

"Now, more than ever, parents have the tools and information they need to control what hits their television screen," said Dyke. "The V-Chip and other blocking technologies along with program ratings allow parents to make TV viewing decisions -- without the need of government control."

The Progress and Freedom Foundation's event marks the launch of Adam Thierer's new book, Parental Controls and Online Child Protection: A Survey of Tools and Methods. The book discusses the evolution and introduction of new media and technology and how parents can use these new technologies to protect their children from potentially objectionable content. "There has never been a time in our nation's history when parents have had more tools and methods at their disposal to help them decide what is acceptable in their homes and lives of their children," states Thierer.

Parental Controls and Online Child Protection: A Survey of Tools and Methods will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. on Wednesday, June 20, 2007 in the Ballroom of the National Press Club.

TV Watch was launched in May 2005 and is the leading national organization to promote parental controls and individual choices as an alternative to increased government regulation of TV content. TV Watch is a nonpartisan coalition of 27 individuals and organizations including legal and entertainment experts and political and consumer organizations representing more than four million Americans. For more information about TV Watch, visit TelevisionWatch.org or contact Emily Tyner at (843) 722-9670.

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