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By EUGENE J. McCARTHY
Rappahannock News contributing writer
I note that there is a movement, inspired, it seems, principally by wives of members of congress, to set up a rating or censorship procedure for rock music.
There are, it seems, bad words or thoughts beneath or amid all the noise and shouting that make up rock.
The proposal is that a warning be put on the record or tape, something like that on cigarette packages and comparable to the rating system used on movies.
Just what the code will be has not yet been made public. If the proposal carries, I anticipate the warnings will have to be given in broadcasts of rock programs, and in radio programs, advising that the sound should be turned down on a record coming up if there are persons under 21, under 16 or under 10 in the room.
Young audiences would be advised that they may listen to the record if their parents are present and ready to give explanations and guidance, as they are supposed to do about some movies.
I don’t have any strong feelings about this rating system. I don’t feel it would have much effect on those who are attracted to rock music.
It could, of course, spread to country music, banning, or at least warning against some songs like
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