This list of approved and disapproved TV shows for US Dept. of Education closed captioning support is being broadly discussed, particularly the criterion that excludes shows with any reference to witchcraft, such as Scooby Doo and Bewitched. While this example is pretty egregious, it strikes me that the ruling is not so much simply frivolous or ignorantly bigoted as it is an insidious attempt to legislate cultural tastes and interests to a segment of the population within the unfortunate grasp of dependency on federal funding. Children’s shows are the real victims of Administration judgmentalism, it appears. At least they haven’t taken their battle for decency out on NPR by denying support for closed captioning of public television news and public affairs programming.