You Want to Cut the Violence on TV? Stars with those Hideous Commercials
You Want to Cut the Violence on TV? Stars with those Hideous Commercials
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How violence harms our children could be compared to how much advertising does the same. When you combine the two, you may as well say goodbye to innocence. |
Numerous and thorough studies done on the impact of violence on our kids suggests we tone down or moderate. Parental controls finally provide one solution, giving parents the responsibility they for so long were accused of denying. Okay.
But how do parents control the commercials their children are bombarded with?
As Levine Breaking News reports, “Violence on broadcast television is nearing ‘epidemic proportions,’ surging 75% over the last six years while posing a threat to children that government officials need to address, according to a new study by the Parents Television Council. ABC has the sharpest increase in the study.”
At the same time, as CBS News reports, kids see some 40,000 TV ads a year.
Now make those ads violent, and the whole construction of healthy development of our children is leveled. I’m speaking of the most hideous, most obnoxious, and most shamelessly disgusting ad I have yet to mute: the Volkwagen crashing violently, scaring the hell out of the happy movie-goers or relationship musers, then cutting to a showroom-style offering of the now-crashed and crunched vehicle.
This ad pisses me off. It is loud, violent, and resorts to the appeal to fear strategies I thought we had outlawed. As much as I abhor censorship and the ignorant who wield it, I still say get rid of these stupid, stupid ads.
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