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Stanton:

Don't let your three-and-a-half year old--

Q:

Don't worry, he doesn't watch television at all [laughs], except for the Explorer channel.

Stanton:

There is some stuff on late at night that first, you know, it's just as wide open as you could imagine it would be. In fact it's pretty bad even in speech on radio now. I happened to listen to something last night around, I guess, two in the morning on one of the radio channels here in New York, and while it was pretty explicit you didn't have the pictures going with it, but I'm sure that if you wanted to look enough you could find something like that on cable. Someday some Congressman or some preacher is going to see it and he's going to call it to his Congressman's attention and you're going to have a lot of flak, and the pendulum will swing way over. No, it's going to be a very tough period ahead for quality in terms of fact and in terms of the kind of material that you're going to be looking at. I wish I were going to be around a little longer. I'd like to see [laughs] how this one plays out.

Q:

Especially since you'd not be in the middle of it, right? [Laughter]

Stanton:

Yes. I don't want to walk out when--

Q:

You wouldn't want to testify before this Congress, I don't think.

Stanton:

No. No.

Q:

We mentioned the quiz shows, and I realized in reading back over the transcripts that we





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