Editing Parents Music Resource Center (section)

== Actions ==
As a method of combating this alleged problem, the PMRC suggested a voluntary move by the [[Recording Industry Association of America|RIAA]] and the music industry to develop music labeling in the form of a rating system similar to the [[Motion Picture Association film rating system|film rating system]] developed by the [[Motion Picture Association of America]].<ref>Deflem, Mathieu. 2020. [https://deflem.blogspot.com/2020/03/music-censorship-labeling.html “Popular Culture and Social Control: The Moral Panic on Music Labeling.”] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211218093514/https://deflem.blogspot.com/2020/03/music-censorship-labeling.html |date=December 18, 2021 }} ''American Journal of Criminal Justice'' 45(1):2–24 (First online: July 24, 2019).</ref> Additional suggestions from the PMRC that appeared in an article in ''[[The Washington Post]]'' included: printing warnings and lyrics on album covers, requiring record stores to put albums with explicit covers under the counters, pressuring television stations not to broadcast explicit songs or videos, "reassess[ing]" the contracts of musicians who performed violently or sexually in concert, and creating a panel to set industry standards.<ref>Harrington, Richard. 1985. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1985/08/29/discord-on-record-warning/103c9178-7991-46ac-9cf7-4886ba656280/#:~:text=Though%20the%20content,also%20be%20rated "Discord on Record Warning"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200913093007/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1985/08/29/discord-on-record-warning/103c9178-7991-46ac-9cf7-4886ba656280/#:~:text=Though%20the%20content,also%20be%20rated |date=September 13, 2020 }} ''Washington Post''</ref>