Censorship Gone Too Far :: Argumentative Persuasive Essays

Censorship Gone Too Far   Seven Works Cited          pick out you ever walked into a music store and seen those agnate advisory stickers on most of todays popular music? Or have you seen those TV ratings on the top left corner of your deary shows? How about the ratings on your favorite video games? Im sure you have, but do you really know what those supposed harmless stickers, and images do to the valet of entertainment and your freedom of expression for that issuance? A recent craze to promote family values in the U.S. has caused censorship panels to go entirely too far with the censorship of the entertainment manufacture including television, radio, the Internet, and even authors.     Not besides do the customers suffer by having parental bans on their favorite music, but the musicians suffer as well. The musicians are betrayed by their own tags, who are there to support them, not hurt them The world of music is basically a collage of the artists thoughts, so banning what they salvage is a violation of their freedom of speech. (Crowley, 1) One of those artists is three time Grammy superior Sheryl Crow. In 1996, Crow released her self-titled album to her many awaiting fans. When most went to their local Wal*food market to pick it up, they were turned down because of the contents in the lyrics. (Family-Friendly..., 76) Wal*food market verbalise the lyrics were offensive and argued that Crow, and her record label change the offensive lyrics. (Family-Friendly..., 76) When Crow and her label refused to change the lyrics, Wal*Mart and many other large-retail stores refused to bring on by her album. (Family-Friendly, 76)    That was not the only time a large retail store refused the sale of an tip In 1986, Wal*Mart stopped the sale of certain rock magazine, including Creem and rolling wave Stone. (Family-Friendly..., 76) The company argued that the magazines conflicted with the family oriented atmosphere they tried to maintain. (Family Friendly..., 76) The same goes for the CDs with Parental Advisories. Wal*Mart and most large retail stores like it, will not sell any Parental Advisories CDs. Therefore, they have decided to clean up those CDs earlier putting them on the shelves, altering them in many ways to get rid of the so-called explicit lyrics.