Congress passed a law recently that mandates television
advertising be no louder than the programming it accompanies. Oh, but recent
experience tells me the ads are still louder, sometimes much louder. In fact, I don’t notice a difference from before
the law took effect.
And this begs the question: what’s the point of laws and
regulations if nobody obeys them and nobody bothers enforcing them? News
agencies have been bashing the current Congress due to how few laws they have
passed. But what difference does it make when the ones they do pass make no difference whatsoever (or are bad ideas to start with)?
This is the law I’m referring to, with the acronym name: CALM
Act:
