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Mr.
Peters has been a speaker at numerous conferences, workshops, panel discussions,
and other events. He has written articles for various publications and has
been interviewed by local, national and international print media, including
the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Chicago
Tribune, Dallas Morning News, Detroit Free Press, Los Angeles Times, Miami
Herald, New York Times, New York Daily News and Newsday, New
York Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Post,
Washington Times, and USA
Today. Mr.
Peters has also appeared on numerous television shows such as: CNN’s “Larry
King Live”; CNN Headline News’ “Glenn Beck”; Fox News Channel’s “Hannity
& Colmes” and “The O'Reilly Factor”; MSNBC’s “Hardball with Chris Matthews”;
CNBC’s “Power Lunch”; BBC America’s “Talking Movies”; The Comcast Network’s
“It’s Your Cal”; PBS’ “The News Hour with Jim Lehrer”; C-SPAN’s “America
& the Courts”; “ABC Evening News” and “PrimeTime”; “CBS Evening News” and
“48 Hours”; and “NBC Nightly News” and “Today”. Mr.
Peters has also been interviewed on hundreds of local, national and
international radio programs and by nationally syndicated radio news
networks.
Mr.
Peters is the author of “It Will Take more than Parental use of Filtering Software
to Protect Children from Pornography on the Internet” (31 N.Y. University School of
Law Review of Law & Social Change
829, 2007); “Once Again, U.S. Supreme Court Thinks It Knows Better Than Congress”
(Spring 2005 issue of NEXUS: A Journal
of Opinion, Chapman University School of Law); "'Marketplace
of Ideas' or Anarchy: What Will Cyberspace Become?" (Spring 2000 issue
of the Mercer Law Review); and "Information Superhighway or Technological Sewer: What Will It Be?" (December 1994 issue of the Federal Communications Law
Journal). Mr.
Peters joined Morality in Media in 1985 as a staff attorney and was named
Assistant Director of the National Obscenity
Law Center (a law project of Morality in Media)
in 1987. He was appointed President of
Morality in Media in 1992. Mr. Peters has drafted state and local obscenity and related
laws and testified before state and local legislative bodies. He has prepared
official Comments to the FCC on the subjects of broadcast indecency and the
TV ratings and testified at a public hearing of the FCC on the subject of TV
violence. Mr. Peters has also authored
amicus briefs in support of federal laws regulating indecent material
on broadcast & cable TV and by means of telephone & computer. In 1992,
Congress enacted legislation, patterned after a proposal submitted by Mr.
Peters, to curb indecent programming on cable TV leased access channels. In
2003, the Senate enacted Senate
Concurrent Resolution 77, expressing the will of
Congress that Federal obscenity laws be “vigorously enforced.” Mr. Peters proposed S. Con. Res. 77 and in
large measure drafted it. Mr. Peters was born
in LaSalle, Illinois in 1949 and graduated from Dartmouth College in 1971. While at Dartmouth,
he co-captained Dartmouth's 1970 undefeated football team and also spent a
semester teaching at a Catholic elementary and high school that served
Clarksdale, Mississippi’s black community. He graduated from
New York University School of Law in 1975 and was admitted to the New York
Bar in 1976. Following law school, Mr.
Peters spent a year representing indigent tenants in Manhattan’s
landlord-tenant court and later worked in a non-legal capacity with a New
York City nonprofit organization to curb the decline in morality. For this
work, he received an Effective Citizenship Award from John Cardinal O'Connor
for translating "concern for the welfare of children into effective
action on their behalf." |
