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150 joined mediamarch protest at Channel 4 on 16 April to say:
STOP Channel 4 PORN !STOP its public funding !
Support our petition and VOTE for family values in the media
(120,000 signature petition will be handed in to 10 Downing St on 26 April)
GUILTY! Channel 4 porn harming our children, corrupting our society
Tony Blair don't you care ?!
Much of the media, especially Channel 4 with its callous use of porn to boost ratings, has helped contribute to:
MORE casual sex, record rates of teen pregnancy, STDs, divorce and family breakdown
MORE crime and ill-discipline, especially among young people
HIGHER bills for the health and welfare system and the economy
HIGHER taxes
Channel 4 is at the forefront of the battle being fought for the hearts and minds of our children - where they go, other channels follow. Publicly-owned Ch. 4 is seeking public funding to avoid an anticipated deficit of £100 million over the next 10 years. Ofcom have advised against such funding but we want to reinforce this message (copy of detailed mediamarch letter to Ch 4 available from contacts below).Meanwhile Ch. 4 is going out of its way to overthrow all constraints on programme content: on 6 March Channel 4 kicked off its "Banned Season" with "X-Rated - The TV They Tried to Ban", featuring blatant, explicit and depraved sexual imagery and repeated extreme bad language.
A scene showing an aborted human foetus being eaten was deliberately shown twice.
The programme was heavily biased against whose who complain, even though the majority do NOT accept explicit sex, violence and bad language in the media - in a recent Sunday Express poll, 90% of respondents said that sexually explicit programmes should be banned.
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