Just a quick question and everyone has to be nice.
Is anyone else tired of people blaming videogames, music, television, and books for the moral decay in America? All those people trying to ban Harry Potter because it promotes worshiping the devil and such? People blaming something or someone else because their child has behavior problems?
My opinion is: If you dont want your child to watch it. Dont let them. The tv shouldnt be a baby sitter anyway. I think a parent should be the censor. I dont think everyone else should be made to suffer.
Ohhhh and let me throw this one in there too: What do you all think about censorship?
I agree, but because the media (tv, videogames and such) isn’t responsible for violence.
Cultivation theory has too many holes in it to be accurate, not to mention that some of Gerbner’s techniques for getting his data were highly suspect.
I can’t even tell you what I think about censorship.
I blame the media for a great many things. More specifically, I blame our incredibly slick, scientific, efficient advertising machene for alot of things. I firmly believe that all advertising is rooted in the goal of making people feel inadequate, in saying in ways both blatant and subtle that everyone else in the world is having better orgasms, more fun, and stronger, purer emotions than you, and they have a product to fix all that. Advertising strokes our “need” button, makes us perpetually disatisfyed wiht our lives and our selves and teaches us that satisfaction comes only through consumption. Should I have children, I don’t want them to see a commecial until they are ten.
Now then, I don’t think that that is any reason to chuck out the 1st amendment and ban advertisements or anything, but I think that it takes an amazing sort of hubris to deny that the way we are bombarded with ads deeply effects who we are.
Unless you plan to keep them in a box until they’re ten Manda, I don’t think it will work.
I read in countless school books (ok, 5) that everyday the average person is bombarded with 5,000 ads.
Ads might have some part to play in how we develop, but I hesitate to say they have the ability to “deeply” effect who we are. If by “deeply” you are insinuating that someone could be driven to violence by watching one too many noxima comercials.
It’s doubtful that ads “deeply” affect anything. People quickly learn to tune them out. They are just background noise, and ultimately, all an ad can do is make you try something once.
Wow, thats another can of worms all together I think.
As far as ads go I feel almost the same way, except that ads are made to be persuasive. I believe that when someone creates an ad for tv or a magazine ect. that they probably do sit down and think out ways to attack our psyche. But at the same time I dont believe its really all that detrimental to us. Its all part of making you want to buy something. A friend of mine believes they run subliminal messaging in commercials these days. Hey, it might be true. The thing is, there really are people out there having more fun. There really are people out there doing things that we arent. In order to sell a product you have to make people “want” it.
It will be very hard to keep your children from seeing commercials until the age of ten. They are everywhere. The world spins on money.
I didn’t think it was legal to run subliminal ads in commercials.
In any event, no ads don’t effect people at all. Not one little bit.
[opens pepsi, takes a swig]
It’s ludicrious to imagine such a world, speaking of which-I can’t wait to get his new album, while I’m there I’ll be sure to pick up my k-swiss. You know, I where mine…untied.
By the way wasn’t XXX the best movie of the summer? Filled with action packed scenes. Vin Diesel is the new James Bond, in my opinion…
