Purpose: The Standards and Practices Board (SPB) is an advisory group that reviews and approves media materials and programming before it is presented or published by One Heart Foundation and it’s affiliates. The philosophy of the SPB is to encourage programming that promotes wholesome values, upholds lifestyle choices for enhancing wellness and fitness, and expands the positive influence of a service-minded and team-oriented view of life. The SPB is watchful to identify and exclude programming that would be vulgar, indecent, or objectionable according to generally accepted community standards in the best traditions of American values.  The television and Internet, because of its unique place in the nation's living rooms, requires managers, programmers, producers and editors to exercise a standard of reasonableness in programming content.

One Heart Foundation desires to have a group to serve as our “Standards and Practices” to review the same types of “standards” and “family values” in behalf of “Strengthening Families”. From this point on, every script, every program, live, film, or tape, will be scrutinized by the SPB for taste, accuracy, violent portrayals, and sexual overtones.   We hold responsible those who produce, direct, record, choreograph, write, or artistically create any products, images, and content in our behalf for One Heart Foundation. 

 We need to create a "bible" for our critiquing media organization with content to support and publish . . . for our producers to refer to, for our Board of Celebrity Directors to endorse, and as in law, "various cases that we can refer to or quote to substantiate our decisions on whether or not to allow various clips or audio files to be streamed to our families and public.  These values will be our basis for decisions.

 Kaye Pullen, co-writer of the book, Gatekeeper, who was a speech writer for President Gerald Ford and served as director of Editorial Services for ABC says, “We must balance the imperatives of free speech and free enterprise. Without some measure of gate keeping, the forces that control the marketplace and the rewards that adhere to a successful program product will leave us with an incoherent and inchoate culture.  On the other hand, a process that is reasonable in its administration and cognizant of change in its deliberations will leave us with a popular culture that we can pass along to generations with confidence as to its dignity, fairness, integrity and inspiration.”

 Once a project is approved by this board of review, it will be given a “One Heart Seal of Approval” and registered on line.  Those projects that are NOT approved will get no seal of approval, recognition, or listing.

 

Alan Osmond

Chairman, One Heart Foundation

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