Why Reverend Wildmon Wants To Ban What You Watch, Hear And Play

April, 1988

The Reverend Donald Wildmon is the quintessential advocate of the "If it affects anyone, ban it for everyone" school of regulation. The National Federation for Decency criticized the USA network for airing Friday the 13th: Part III, because an 11-year-old in Madison, Wisconsin, hanged himself, allegedly trying to duplicate a stunt in the film. Similarly, the N.F.D. blamed the producers of Rambo, because Anthony James Jenkins went on a sniping spree in Mississippi shortly after he saw t...

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