In recent months, Democrats Hillary Clinton and Joe Lieberman have joined two of Senate's most conservative Republicans in requesting $90 million in federal funds for research on how Internet and other electronic media "affect children's emotional and behavioral development." Clinton called sex and violence in media a "silent epidemic."

Actually, epidemic in values-free entertainment isn't silent -- you can hear it blasting out of every radio speaker and cineplex. It's politicians who are periodically silent. Over past 25 years, they have jumped on sex-and-violence bandwagon about every five years or so. Remember V-chips and before them, Tipper Gore?

Hmmm....so why does problem never seem to get better? Quite simply, it's because a small number of publicly traded companies control most of what our children see and hear -- and business of these corporations is to make money, not shape our children's values.