The 1990 Children's Television Act Required Stations to Include Educational

question 26

Multiple Choice

The 1990 Children's Television Act required stations to include educational television in their Saturday morning lineups but lacked a definition of what "educational" programming is by law. As a result, broadcasters were willing to define almost anything as educational, including old cartoons such as The Flintstones and The Jetsons. What type of political constraint response is this?

• A) preemption
• B) interpretation
• C) challenge
• D) compliance

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