Interview with Rev. DONALD E. WILDMON: Bringing Satan To Heel:

Tired of sex and violence on the air, the Rev. DONALD E. WILDMON has discovered that the quickest, most effective route to the networks' conscience is through their pocketbooks

Q. What is it about television that you find objectionable?

A. Primarily the value system that undergirds so much of television. Specifically, the excessive, gratuitous sex, violence, profanity, the negative stereotyping of Christians.

Q. What is the evidence of anti-Christian attitudes by the networks?

A. I could probably count on one hand, or certainly two hands, the number of programs in which a Christian depicted in a modern-day setting is shown in a positive manner. They're usually depicted as con men, rip-off artists, adulterers, murderers, rapists, thieves, liars.

A person who is wearing a cross, carrying a Bible or standing behind...

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