NPR's Brooke Gladstone reports on a new, negative evaluation of the recent television ratings system. The conservative Media Research Center claims the system has failed to adequately alert parents to programming they might not want their children to see. In fact, the group's reviewers contend that prime time programming rated for general audiences routinely contained "vulgarities" and "obscenities". The study looked at 150-hours of prime time television on ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC, UPN, and WB networks. NBC garnered some of the harshest criticism.
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