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Crackdown on lewd materials pushed

IN A MOVE to strengthen the campaign against obscenity in Manila, the city council on Tuesday passed a resolution calling for the strict enforcement of an ordinance banning obscene shows, programs, and images on karaoke machines, computers and electronic billboards. Authored by Councilor Numero Lim, the resolution called on all the police, barangay officials and other law enforcement officers to crack down on violators of Ordinance No. 8093, which bans the public display or showing of sexually illicit and obscene images, lewd, pornographic electronic billboards, including titillating or sexually stimulating shows or programs, on videoke or karaoke machines in bars and computers in Internet shops in the city. The proliferation of obscene materials in the city could lead to the corruption of the minds of young Manilans, Lim said in the resolution.

Women keep close tabs on RH bill

WOMEN have been keeping close tabs on debates sparked by the Reproductive Health (RH) bill, also known as House Bill No. 4244 or the Responsible Parenthood, Reproductive Health and Population and Development Act of 2011. According to media research firm Nielsen, women made up the higher proportion of viewers of RH Bill TV specials produced by GMA News TV and ABS-CBN. Nielsen’s Audience Measurement report, which incorporates data from both its National Urban Television Audience Measurement (NUTAM) and Mega Manila TAM (MegaTAM), gauges the country’s current TV landscape by surveying homes in urban areas nationwide.

Overnight ratings indicate that during the airing of ABS-CBN’s “Harapan RH Bill: Ipasa o Ibasura?” female audiences made up 55 percent of viewers  in national urban areas and 56 percent of viewers in Mega Manila. GMA News TV (channel 11), also staged its own RH bill TV Special. GMA News TV’s “RH Bill: The Grand Debate,” which aired on May 22 from 8:45 p.m. to 11:10 p.m., had about 353,000 average viewers per minute in NUTAM and 272,000 average viewers per minute in Mega Manila. In national  urban areas, 54 percent of the viewers were female. On the other hand, female viewership in Mega Manila was slightly lower at 52.