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FOUNDER

REV. MORTON A. HILL, SJ

(July 13, 1917-November 4, 1985)

RABBI DR. JULIUS G. NEUMANN Chairman of the Board

REV. PAUL J. MURPHY, SJ President

EVELYN DUKOVIC Executive Vice-President

RUTH KAPP

REV. ROBERT E. WILTENBURG

Vice-Presidents

GEORGE B. FERGUSON Comptroller

PAUL J. MCGEADY, ESQ

General Counsel

DIRECTORS

GEORGE A. DOYLE, JR. EVELYN DUKOVIC

REV. DR. MILTIADES B. EFTHIMIOU

SHEILA FLANIGAN

DAVID O. HOPKINS

RICHARD HUGHES

PAUL J. MCGEADY

THE REV. GARETH MILLER REV. PAUL J. MURPHY, S.J. RABBI DR. JULIUS G. NEUMANN

JOHN J. REILLY VICTOR SAYEGH PAUL J. TROG ELMER VON FELDT JOHN W. WALBER, ESQ JOHN J. WALSH, ESQ KATHLEEN ZAWACKI

NATIONAL PLANNING BOARD

JOSEPH COORS President

Adolph Coors Company ARNOLD R. DEUTSCH

Director

Deutsch, Shea & Evans

JOHN H. DOUGLAS Ret. Chairman & President United Electronics Institute

FRANCIS J. DUNLEAVY Ret. Vice-Chairman International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation RT. REV. RICHARD S. EMRICH Ret. Episcopal Bishop of Michigan THOMAS W. GLEASON President International Longshoremen's Ass'n.

N. BUNKER HUNT Chairman, Hunt Energy Corporation JOHN M. JOYCE Chairman of the Board Joyce Beverages, Inc. WILLIAM S. KANAGA Chairman, Advisory Board Arthur Young International

JOHN R. KENNEDY, JR. President

Federal Paper Board Co., Inc. WELLINGTON T. MARA President

New York Football Giants, Inc. THOMAS A. MURPHY Ret. Chairman

General Motors Corporation HON. WILLIAM E. SIMON Chairman, Wesray Corporation EDWARD L. STEINIGER Ret. Chairman, Sinclair Oil Corp. ARTHUR R. TAYLOR Chairman

Arthur Taylor & Co., Inc.

EMMET E. TRACY Chairman & President Alma Products, Inc. MISS LORETTA YOUNG

MORALITY IN MEDIA, INC. 475 RIVERSIDE DRIVE, NEW YORK, NY 10115 (212) 870-3222

Secretary to

Her Majesty the Queen Buckingham Palace London, England

Your Majesty:

On September 23,

letter to the Crown

the message

1987 Colony

I

February 22, 1988

wrote the attached of Hong Kong and Unfortunately, the

not

Colony and the Television

apparently have that it is

inconsistent

received the attached reply. Governor of the Crown Licensing Authority understood the for certain types of television programs to be prohibited in Britain and permitted in Hong Kong. In this respect I give you a copy of an article from Variety dated January 6, 1988 to the effect that viewers in Hong Kong will now be exposed to full frontal nudity on the T.V. screen. The concept that 800 people who replied to some type of a "survey," which has not been explained or scientifcally justified, reflects the morals of the

Kong is unbelievable.

of people

Hong

We request Your Majesty to intervene in this matter and see that your subjects in Hong Kong are not exposed to more sex, crime and violence on the TV screen than they are exposed to in Great Britain. We

We also suggest that you request that this so-called "survey" be submitted to you for examination and determination of whether a true "universe" of the population, or a cross section thereof, was scientifically reflected both in the questions proposed and in the results.

I think you should give particular attention to the type of question that was asked and to whom the question was asked. Were the explicit sex scenes that are contemplated described in the question? Were the people prepared to accept lewd exhibition of the genitals, violent rape, etc? or were the questions of such a general nature that the true intentions of the questioner

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