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The Elephant in the Room

So far this year, the HRTS has presented luncheons featuring hitmaking producers, broadcast network presidents, reality producers and programmers, cable network chiefs, and the estimable NBC News anchor Brian Williams.   Conversation amongst these panels of industry leaders broached a vast array of topics of interest to the many members of the HRTS in attendance.  Throughout all these luncheons however, looming in the corner of the room, was an inescapable “elephant� that continuously touches us all.  That elephant is the spectre of increased regulation from the federal government in the area of indecency.   Throughout our Newsmaker season the topic came up whether the question was asked or not.  In the latest issue of Society Views, our quarterly newsletter you can see the theme recurring, both in the event recaps as well as our POV letters.