by Robert Peters

About the author: Robert Peters is president of Morality in the Media, a national nonprofit organization established in 1962 to combat obscenity and uphold decency standards in the media.

My name is Robert Peters. I am a graduate of Dartmouth and N.Y.U. School of Law. I began my work at Morality in Media in May 1985 as a staff attorney, and I was named president in September 1992. Founded in New York City in 1962, Morality in Media is a national, not-for-profit, interfaith organization that works through constitutional means to combat obscenity (“hard-core pornography”) and to uphold standards of decency in the media.

We are also concerned about the related problem of gratuitous (and often graphic, sadistic) violence in various media: TV, films, music/RAP, video and computer games.

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