Voodoo and Violence: Magician Penn Jillette sees through the censors' tricks, by Penn Jillette, Steven Kurtz,
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Topics discussed include: Janet Reno's denunciations of TV violence, the confusions about "censorship", Howard Stern,
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Unfortunately, that gets very, very confusing with stuff like the motion-picture rating system. What you have there is, at least on the face of it, a "voluntary" rating system put in because of government threats. I do blame the entertainment industry for a lot, because they could have hung tough and seen where the chips fell. But they didn't, because it's better for business, which is what they're supposed to be about. It's complicated, but what we have now is a situation where if you open a movie theater in a mall, you sign a piece of paper that says you can't show unrated, NC-17, or X-rated films.