Miscellaneous

Finally, Congress is trying to do something right

Now here's a piece of legislation this TV Whore can get behind -- Senator Roger Wicker, from Mississippi, has introduced legislation "that would require the Federal communications Commission to bar commercials from being broadcast at louder volumes than the program material they accompany." Wicker has cutely titled his legislation the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation Act (the "CALM Act"), and says it's "a common sense approach to a problem that plagues" families across this fine TV-loving country of ours. Amen brother, amen.

Full post as published by Quiz Law on June 24, 2008 (boomark / email).