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as well as petitions, law suits, and attempts to deny renewal of licenses to certain television stations. So far crusade appears to have been effective and net works are clearly becoming concerned. In August five television producers expressed view that the industry is slowing violence to a degree that is dangerous, and that are going to be faced with a plastic television that is going to breed a plastic society. It was also suggested that pendulum may be swinging too far in other direction, that we may see a return of censorship, and that even Hamlet and Roots will be banned for being too violent. So far, however, these fears remain unfounded. And, while there has been some reduction in number of violent programmes, we are as yet in no danger of becoming a plastic society, a d indeed it appears that net works are replacing hate with lust and crime with sex.6

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