No. We don't need not another law controlling information or regulating TV.

2112$, that sounds like an essay question. Anyway, I guess we can take it piece by piece.

"Do you think that our values as a growing population (in the body of land known as the United States) are eroding as we become desensetized to certain things through the vast branches of the media in this connected information age?"

Like what? Murder? Has "Law & Order" decensitized us toward violence? No. I just think it's taught us the difference between real and fantasy. Beating your wife or killing your child or murdering your boss are all still horible things (well, maybe not the last one ) and violent media programs haven't thickened our skin towards them at all.

"And what specifically do you think is causing this (advertisements, televisions shows, movies, etc)?"

I think it's just the growth of our country. We're maturing as a civilizaton, but we're not losing our values.

Murder is still bad. Disrespecting your elders is still bad. Sleeping around is still bad.

But you would be stupid if you think these things didn't happen back then when our morals were "better". And when they happen now, they are still regarded as imoral.

"Also, do you think laws should be enacted to control information more or less?"

No... not a shot in hell.

I'm with mic on this. Laws should not be made to control the flow of information and entertainment.

"Do you think it will come to that in the future?"

Depends on who this country puts in the big chair.

If neo's right, which I think he is, our generation has grown up on this stuff and we deal with it better. We've grown up with computers and the internet and cell phones and this vast expansion in personal technology.

Once our generation starts hitting the work place en masse, I doubt laws will be written to govern the media.

Superchicken has the right idea.

I think that there are too many distractions today, and it's only going to get worse. So I'm wondering if or when there will be regulation to protect the young and impressionable from all of the distorted 'noise' we have going on all around us. And I mean desensitized to standards of dress, appropriate actions (ranging from etiquette to control over one's own impulses) and danger zones in general.

I was all set to disagree with Mic, then I scrolled down.  I have zero interest in some government entity telling me what they think is decent or not.  I will and always have policed my kids viewing habits myself.

If you are of age, and the porn actors are too, who cares?

It doesn't have to be government regulation. It could be a political uprising of support for all things decent.

It seems that despite the best efforts by the best of parents, children are still exposed to some sick stuff constantly. To an adult who has made up their minds about what is right and wrong, and what is fluff and what is important, it's nothing. But to a naive child, how can they possibly navagate through all of the distractions.

Why so quick to make up your mind, Mic?