THE EDITOR, Sir:

The Hopeton Dunn-led Broad-casting Commission's priorities are woefully misplaced. The commission needs to develop proper policies that protect children from harmful cable content and recommend these to the minister of information instead of focusing its attention on Ragashante's ill-advised comments and a legitimate business deal between Flow and Entertainment Systems, neither of which is nearly as damaging to the society as the continuous, crude, coarse, vulgar, degenerate, depraved material that the Broadcasting Commission allows to be broadcast daily on some cable channels, morning, noon and night.

Legal challenges

In recent weeks, the commission has been in the public eye for one ill-advised reason or another. The Commission's hot-air brouhaha over Flow's acquisition of Entertainment Systems has come to nothing as, according to media reports, the commission withdrew its legal challenges and the sale is going through unchanged. More recent media reports are that the commission is recommending to the minister of information that a radio station lose its licence because talk-show host, Ragashante made improper remarks and the commission is not satisfied with the radio station's response.

While the commission is creating all this public commotion over one or other non-issue, the commission ignores its own culpability in the corrupting of Jamaica's morality by allowing the continuous in-your-face broad-casting of vulgar, degenerate, violent and sexually depraved material on cable channels that are freely available on cable everywhere.

It's time the commission gets its priorities right.

I am etc.,

D. DENNISON

ddennison@hotmail.com