Talking about the entertainment in the street and American Values. While he was in california, president obama told members of the industry there that they play a part in transferring culture and values and giving us a sense of what america is like for the world. We want to know if you agree or disagree with that statement. Here is how you can call in this morning about 25 of you posting on our facebook page. Some of you, especially on the twitter pages, you may remember it was all in california for several days that mr. Obama spoke at the dreamworks studio, talking to members of the Entertainment Industry and talking about the culture and of the Entertainment Industry. The headline again, we are kind of using that question, what he spoke about in the industry, that is the larger question about the Entertainment Industry. You may agree or disagree but here is how you can reach out to us this morning. Feel free to tell us yes or no and feel free to tell us why. At theesident spoke dreamworks studio, here is his expanded comments about the Entertainment Industry and how it reflects American Culture [video clip] hundreds of millions of people may never set foot in the United States but thanks to you have experienced a small part of what makes our country special. They have learned something about our values. We have shaped a world culture through you. The stories that we tell transmit values and ideals about diversity and overcoming adversity and creativity. As a consequence of what youve done, you helped shape the world culture in a way that has made the world better. They may not know the gettysburg address, but if they are watching some old movie, maybe guess who is coming to dinner, or will and grace, they have had a frontrow seat to our march toward progress. Young people in countries all around the world are suddenly making a connection and have an affinity to people who dont look like them. Originally they may have been fearful now they say this person is like me. That is one of the powers of art. That is what you transmit. It is a remarkable legacy. There are the president s statements. Heres how you can reach us a couple of responses on our twitter page. You can send us a comment on facebook or send us an email at journal cspan. Org. Our first call is steve from our independent line in massachusetts. Caller it is interesting to hear the president s talk about progress. When i hear the word progress, it reminds me that it is a philosophically loaded term. I am 60 years old and i see the transformation in the values in this country that are no doubt media driven. You can go back to the 70s and it is just shocking to look at shows like little house on the prairie. There was more talent and trauma ,n one hour, incredible writing then you see today. Television especially today seems to be run by cools. It reflects the antivalues of media moguls. We see murderers, serial killers all over the place, as if they are next door, left and right, although at the beginning of the programs they say this is fictional. At the same time you see a glorification of the cia, the fbi, and the militarization of the police. This philosophical transformation seems to be a form of social engineering. Where it all began, i do not know. Think the restu of the world perceives us through the media and entertainment we send out . One of the things that is underestimated when we go back to 9 11 we think these people hate our way of life, they hate our freedom. I think what we are seeing is an up use of freedom. I am in a irishamerican, i have nothing to do with the middle east. What they worry about is precisely these antivalues intruding where women and young degraded, where sex is sex is exalted and violence is glorified. I think that contribute to what happened. Call,s is our second george for miami, florida on the democrats line. Kind of agree with the gentleman who just spoke. I would not say that they do not agree. I think they should have more of a for i. T. Of different cultures we have in america, not just one side. Also on the same side, i think America Needs to accept its responsibility in showing the truth. We are not perfect and we have done a lot of wrong. We would be hypocrites to say we are not to say we are the greatest country in the world and not except our own fault. What you are saying is the industry should reflect the cultures. Give an example. What do you think needs to be seen that is not being seen currently . The history of america the white man stealing from the indians, stealing from africa, that is in the history. It is a fact. We should accept that as a fact and embrace it he e my father is black and my mother is white. I dont love my black father more than i love my white mother, i love them equally. People here should embrace that and step off our differences and accept the fact that we are all the same and the world should know that we accept each other and them and their culture. We will leave it there. Industry, doesnt it portray American Values . Republican line, san jose, california. You are on. You are listening on the phone go ahead and stop listening to the tv. Why dont we put her on hold and try chuck from florida. Caller good morning, america. That is quite the concept and question you have here this morning. On one hand i think the media and Entertainment Industry groups, values of the the homosexuals, the different groups out there, which america has become nothing but a different batch of groups in my opinion. Portray the stuff at nausea him until everybody does accept it, going back to the last caller. Whether that is good or bad is really the question. Is it an erosion of a basic set of values . Media doing that deliberately . Are all kinds of questions that come out of the base question, which is a convoluted and contemplated and competent in question. Watch a lot of entertainment, shows, movies, etc. . Used to. I dont anymore. I am a cspan junkie, that is my form of entertainment. I did at one time. I watched on the family, threes company, but nowadays we have two gay men raising a boy. You notice that our society has gotten to that point only because it was presented to us through sitcom. The Entertainment Industry knows the powers they have. And they use it. Edlund from twitter says if our American Values are green rhea is on our democrats line. Maria is on our democrats line. I am not happy with the way immediate or trays americans. I was not born in this country and i think in a very different way. I dont understand why [indiscernible] it is really not what americans stand for. I just dont understand how specific people are still in the when they have news on tv i have lived in four countries, two different have never and i seen such a seen in my entire life. They believe in the very very nasty way. I dont think it is right. Isouhost our question about the Entertainment Industry. President obama was in california recently. Jim follows up and expands on what we are talking about. Ons a piece from twitter you can add to that if you will. Give us your thoughts on the line that better presents you on this cream. If you call us in the last 30 days, hold off on doing so today. When you call and get on the line to come in, turn down your television so we do not get feedback. Jeffrey from fort lauderdale, florida, republican line. Caller thank you for taking my call. I feel the Entertainment Industry absolutely does not portray American Values in particular. To speak to the concept of american exceptionalism. I feel that concept is a myth because it suggests that america is better than other nations. The United States of america was based onborn oppression of peoples. We committed a systematic based on native americans. Then we enslaved africans. Now we are struggling to consider whether gays and lesbians are entitled to write. How does the Entertainment Industry play into that . Maybe its not all of the american industry that a lot of the stereotypical depictions tend to portray this godon as one nation under and so forth. Do follow what i am saying . Host we will move on to terrance in maryland. Do i think gimmick do i think the Entertainment Industry countries American Values . History andmerican even the depictions in the early century, werly 19th have always had a violent culture. When you get up to this time you see the different sexualizations of the causes of the people you see on reality tv. As long as we participate in the the sad part is the people who make the decisions, the executives, they have control over what you see and what your children see. They knowingly put the stuff on they put the stuff on tv and they know that pop culture, if that is what you want to call it, they know people observe all the stuff and this becomes their reality. So the concerns you have, how does that consume how does that affect the way you consume media . I like to look for the alternative sources. American i i am an have earthly values. We wont mess because our values are going to be different. If i portray myself as earthly first and the u. S. Government or any other entity, then i can deal with you as an earthling. These are really matters that are spurred. This is then a saying that field of dreams the movie does reflect our value. From facebook this morning, a couple of comments. You can add your conversation on facebook. Charles is next on delaware. Hello. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] caller thank you for taking my call. America being portray does not do us any service overs overseas. I would talk to people about what americans were. It wasnt just the movies but it is how the news per trade americans. He see miley cyrus, you see baldwin, you see actors getting away with doing drugs and drunk theing and all this read way we are portrayed in the movie tv industry and even print is just not the way most americans are. That is the way many people outside of our country see us and have for the past 50 years or so. I think one previous caller said something about old movies. Songs and youold hear things that are just so different. How much is that dog in the window, compared to the stuff you hear from the rappers and what is supposedly current america. Stories, thef news numbers are on the screen. A couple of stories to point you to. The New York Times this morning. It was supposed to accommodate 50,000 simultaneous users. The New York Times saying adding fat, the administration has spent over 9 million beefing up the system with additional servers and other hardware. From the Washington Post this morning on the status of healthcare. Gov, the start on the first page and continues inside come a saying our next call is been joining us from atlanta georgia. Caller i listened to all the callers and all their points are valid. That theme to believe Entertainment Industry is a micheline and it means many things to many people. It is a role and shape in American Values. E begin to see a difference it drastically changed with the and showing just the opposite type of family values. Of thisget out conversation is even though it is a machine, it is an industry ,nd has structure, organization so there is somebody or something or some group that is directing it. Maybe it is the organizations that run hollywood. It definitely has structure. Somebody is determining the type i think that is something we should consider. It scares me. How does that affect your entertainment consumption . My entertainment is in technology and i do not watch tv that much unless it is a show where i am learning something, like maybe a nature show or how the earth is formed. Pop stars is a reality show but you learn. Most of the shows, you are just consuming types of morals that are really degrading. It scares me where this is actually heading in when you watch the local news, wherever get a lot of you news stories about people getting shot and all of the naked of things. That, when ilot of it is peaceful. Is a diametrically opposed picture. The parents Watchdog Council put out some statistics. Taking a look specifically at that twon, saying thirds of children in the United States have Television Sets in their bedroom. Children spend more time watching television than they do in school. Television reaches children at a younger age. It goes to statistics about the internet, saying 31 of children surveyed report having seen a pornographic site on the internet. 18 of teens ages three to frequently communicates online was someone they have never met in person and 37 have received a link to ask and link to sexually explicit content. Familiestely 40 of with preschoolers own videogame government. And 90 play peter that play computer and other games. This is from the pew research center. American Entertainment Industry and if it reflects American Values, that is the question we want to take on today. You can look online. There is a story in the los angeles times. We are talking to give you a sense of where we are going. We will talk about what the president said, especially when it comes the Entertainment Industry. There is the website. Doug is from virginia, good morning. Caller how are you doing . Span. Lly enjoy c is entertainment, that is what it is, it is fantasy for the most part. Shows they show and discuss reality. I get a kick out of listening to you guys in the morning and andening to people callin seeing just how farfetched people really are. Host what you think about the idea that television or any other media delivers values . I dont think it is about values. It is about what catches your attention and what holds your attention. The police would never get by with shooting as many people as they should on television. Or i would hope they dont. I live in a small town in the middle of nowhere. We dont have that problem here. Host john is next on the republican line from california. Caller thank you for cspan. I wanted to say to america that i do think in a form american entertainment has bigger dated family values. Bigger dated a family values. I think it continues to gun violence and contributes to what our enemies would call us as the great satan. We have some immoral type programming the people are allowed to view. Altogether wehat have become a nation that is financially bankrupt and morally ankara. I want us to really rethink. Independents,o democrats, and republicans. I really discourage you from democrats, republicans, and independents. Why dont you put us into one group of americans and try to find out what is it that our American Value our American Family values . Next caller, hello. Hello. I wanted to make a comment in relation to the president s comments, especially with the popularity of the Television Drama scandal, i believe his comments were largely positive. It was positive what he was saying in the Entertainment Industry. I would love to hear my fellow point of view on how that particular program portrays the presidency. Of corruption. Ill would be interested to hear his comments on that. Do you watch the program . Caller i do, i enjoy it. Why do you make the connection . His comments were specifically regarding how it person may never have set foot in the United States yet they can know quite a bit about our values from the Entertainment Industry. I dont think that would be a very positive the picture of our government and the way things currently work. Host lets read a couple of tweets you can make comments off of twitter, facebook, and on the phones. Here is becky from clearwater, florida on the democrats line. Caller hello. I did not get a chance to look , but i worked at nelson. Be viewing it as a value and delivery system. Think when we quote all these watchdog groups on our job programs, it is their to get people to stop consuming entertainment. Were you in charge of gathering ratings and nielsen . Host were you in charge of gathering ratings at nielsen . Caller yes. Expand on communicating values. Caller unfortunately people consume more entertainment than they should, that is my opinion. They are getting their values from entertainment and not from unfortunately everybody has a stable home life. They might beginning their values from entertainment, which is not a good thing. This is why we should be putting our money into things like big brother and big sister and stuff like that. Unfortunately there is more money in entertainment than some of these programs. Would call people working and nielsen, what kind of things did you want to figure out from them . You basically just find that demographic and ages and stuff like that. You just find out what theyre watching. A make you fill out a booklet. Im sure that many of your viewers have been called and have actually participated. Are you impressed by the amount of television we consume as a culture . Caller yes. People have such different opinions and such different age groups. I forget what they would always say. But it was westerns. My parents wont let me watch there are certain ones where you are supposed posed to talk to a certain i have a pretty strong opinion about it. The parents should be determining what their kids are watching. Host has it affected how much you watch television . Caller i dont watch as much. We appreciate the perspective. Republican line is next. Caller good morning. Slope to theppery way hollywood does things. I like how the catchphrase the new normal oh the new normal it is my ear. I use the channel slippery whole lot. Channel flipper a whole lot. I have a satellite dish and i use only eight or 10 channels. If you go to the Financial Times today, there is an interview that has been done with irans president. It talks about a lot of things but par