Parents Television Council

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Baptist Messenger reports on the PTC’s visit to Oklahoma

State Rep. Paul Wesselhoft, a member at Del City, First Southern, and a member of the Rose Day Committee of the Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma's Ethics and Religious Liberty Committee, hosted McKiernan and arranged a couple of speaking engagements for him.

McKiernan said the PTC helps battle the negative influence of television in a couple of ways.

"First of all, education is a big part of what we do," he explained. "Going out and talking at events and getting some of our research out. The effect of television on children is proven. There have been thousands of studies done, and all of the major medical and child welfare groups agree about the huge effects it can have on children. So we try to educate people about what is going on in the medium, because a lot of people may not be seeing this stuff; their kids are, but they're not in the room, or their kids are at their friend's house, and they don't really realize what's going on.

"A lot of people say they knew it was bad 10 or 15 years ago the last time they watched a lot of television, and they don't realize how much worse it has gotten. So we try to spread information about what's going on-including some of our research-so people can be informed and hopefully stir them to action."

McKiernan said local chapter directors are an important cog in the PTC operation.

"One of the things our local chapter directors do is to go out and speak to PTAs, civic clubs and churches and give them some informational briefings," he said. "Then, once we have people educated, we hope to be able to make them active, and there are a couple of things we are working on legislatively.

National Grassroots Director of the Parents Television Council (PTC), Gavin McKiernan, along with PTC Vice President Patrick Salazar, visited the Oklahoma City area recently and delivered an important message, urging parents and other concerned citizens to take action against the offensive content plaguing the media and causing ill effects on children.

“Children should be able to sit down and enjoy watching cartoons without being assaulted by sex and violence,” says McKiernan. “Yet, if you sit down with your child to watch television, you just never know what’s going to come on,” Salazar adds. “For family safety, we need at least 2 to 3 hours of television that’s ‘family-friendly.’ We need some kind of a ‘safe haven.’”