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Geraldine Laybourne, Edgar Bronfman Jr, Les Moonves, Harvey Weinstein, Goldman Sachs, NIH, and Harvard/Stanford Academics

The Beyond Media Conference put on by the Aspen Institute and Common Sense Media (Affiliated with Clinton's fronted by Tom Steyers bro James Steyer)

It's in 2007 all about kids, the media, ethics, and the internet....Check out how many perverts, and pizzagate suspects are at this "conference"

https://stock.adobe.com/ee/editorial/ken-auletta-brian-roberts-geraldine-laybourne-and-edgar-bronfman-jr-speak-at-the-media-as-parent-panel-discussion-during-the-beyond-primetime-conference-in-new-york/146919891

https://www.aspeninstitute.org/news/press-release/top-media-executives-participate-common-sense-media-aspen-institutes-beyond-primetim/

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20070205005043/en/Leading-Media-Executives-Join-Conversation-Upcoming-Primetime

Will Media Help Grow Healthier Kids? Stay Tuned. For the first time, leading executives of some of America's top media companies will join in conversation with the best minds in education and policy to take a close look at today's rapidly changing media landscape. Today, kids live in a 24/7 media world putting in more than 45 hours a week with media from downloading music to going to the movies to social networking online. What are the opportunities this new and expanding world offer to kids and parents today? And, how do parents navigate through this media saturated playground? What is the impact on kids and what are the implications for our society? Join us as we look at the new and evolving partnership between parents and media.

The Media as Parent

Introduction Walter Isaacson, President and CEO, The Aspen Institute James Steyer, President and CEO, Common Sense Media

Ken Auletta, Moderator, Columnist, The New Yorker magazine Edgar Bronfman, Jr., Chairman and CEO, Warner Music Group Geraldine Laybourne, Founder and CEO, Oxygen Media Brian Roberts, Chairman and CEO, Comcast Corporation

What is the Responsibility of Media Leaders?

Introduction Gene Sykes, Managing Director, Goldman, Sachs & Co. Alan Schwartz, President and Co-CEO, Bear, Stearns and Co., Inc.

Ken Auletta, Moderator, Columnist, The New Yorker magazine Leslie Moonves, President and CEO, CBS Corporation Richard Parsons, Chairman of the Board and CEO, Time Warner Inc. Harvey Weinstein, Co-Chairman, The Weinstein Company

Should Media be Regulated When it Comes to Kids?

Professor Geoffrey Cowan, Moderator, Dean, USC Annenberg Commissioner Michael Copps, Federal Communications Commission Gary Knell, President and CEO, Sesame Workshop Douglas Lowenstein, President, Entertainment Software Association Commissioner Deborah Taylor Tate, Federal Communications Commission

Keeping Kids Healthy in a 24/7 Media Environment

Ezekiel Emanuel, MD, Moderator, Chair, Department of Clinical Bioethics, NIH Jane Brown, Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication, UNC Chapel Hill James Marks, MD, Vice President of Health, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Victoria Rideout, Vice President, Kaiser Family Foundation Thomas Robinson, MD, Associate Professor, Stanford University School of Medicine

Media, Kids, and Ethics

Walter Isaacson, Moderator, President and CEO, The Aspen Institute Ezekiel Emanuel, MD, Chair, Department of Clinical Bioethics, NIH Professor Howard Gardner, Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education Carla Hendra, Co-CEO, Ogilvy North America A.O. Scott, Film critic, The New York Times

Does the Internet Change Everything?

Professor Jeffrey Cole, Moderator, Director, Center for the Digital Future Rod Diefendorf, Vice President, Online and Local Search, InfoSpace, Inc. / Zoo.com Professor Howard Gardner, Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education Liz Perle, Editor-in-Chief, Common Sense Media Elliot Schrage, Vice President, Global Communications and Public Affairs, Google Inc.

Good Media for Kids Can Make a Difference

Jim Steyer, Moderator, President and CEO, Common Sense Media Sarah Brown, Director, The National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy Gary Knell, President and CEO, Sesame Workshop Pat Mitchell, President, The Museum of Television and Radio Professor Charles Ogletree, Associate Dean for Clinical Programs, Harvard Law Mike Tollin, Television and film director and producer, Tollin-Robbins Productions Laura Walker, President and CEO, New York Public Radio (WNYC) Cyma Zarghami, President, Nickelodeon and MTVN Kids and Family Group

https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/55078/critics-rates-big-media-pg-parental-guidance-sugg.html

Media critic Ken Auletta staged a frontal assault on three executives representing Big Media on Monday night at the opening event of Beyond Primetime, a conference on social responsibility in media hosted by Commonsense Media and the Aspen Institute at the Time Warner Center in Manhattan. Despite Auletta's best efforts, however, the three execs--Brian Roberts, chairman and CEO of Comcast, Geraldine Laybourne, founder and CEO of Oxygen, and Edgar Bronfman Jr., chairman and CEO of Warner Music Group--held the line tenaciously in their discussion of media and parenting. Above all, media companies are no substitute for parents, and the blame for children's failings belongs chiefly to the parents who neglect them.

That's not to say Auletta didn't try. In his opening salvo he asked the panelists whether their companies offered any content they wouldn't want their children to see. He needled them further by naming specific examples of controversial content produced or distributed by the three companies, including Oxygen's "Bad Girls' Club" and Warner's roster of gangster rap.

But he immediately encountered staunch resistance, with all three executives shifting responsibility back to parents--in this case, themselves. Existing methods of parental policing were duly noted. Roberts explained how he and his wife use parental control features on TV and Internet content to block out risqué or violent material. Likewise, Bronfman--father of seven--said his children aren't allowed to listen to any music that's stickered as explicit.

However, it fell to Laybourne to take the offensive. She noted that Oxygen isn't intended for children, while many cable channels are suitable for children. The problem, she suggested, lies with parents who are unable to engage their children in a dialogue to guide their viewing. She recommended that parents watch TV shows with their children "and tell them when 'we don't approve of these values.'"

Roberts affirmed that "there's no conversation" at the national level about the importance of parenting, leaving media companies as scapegoats for societal ills. Then Bronfman tried to roll back Auletta's earlier questions, challenging what he said was a basic premise that "anything controversial shouldn't be aired," conflating parental and corporate responsibility. Bronfman noted that some controversial material, like the lyrics of Tupac Shakur (a Warner artist) later gains respect. Here Laybourne added that even Oxygen's most risqué programming is empowering--for women in the appropriate age group.

Bronfman also argued that eliminating controversial material is simply unrealistic from the perspective of capitalism--"the engine that drives our society." In support of this, Roberts noted the discrepancy in ratings for different episodes of E!'s "True Hollywood Stories": those that end with the subject dead enjoy ratings about twice as high as those on a subject still living. Roberts concluded: "Now yes, that's pathetic. But at the end of the day it's the consumer, parented or not, that decides."

But the apparent sincerity of the panel was undercut somewhat when Auletta turned the target elsewhere, observing: "It's easier to police or have parental guidance for TV--how do you have policing for YouTube?" Now the panel reversed course. Bronfman descried the availability of questionable content, pointing specifically to peer-to-peer social networks as purveyors of questionable material. Likewise, Roberts noted the exponential growth in YouTube--which now takes up 4% of Comcast's bit traffic--and issued a call for regulation by some industry body, if not the government itself. For her part, Laybourne shifted attention from TV to the Internet by describing the difficulty of policing the latter: "It's not getting any better--think about the Internet! It's endless!"