Good or bad, nice or mean, appropriate or inappropriate, people imitate what they see on tv and hear on the radio. Argue if you want to; it's true. It's especially true of those who have not found their own "voices" yet, i.e. the young and the immature. I have a problem with what is considered acceptable for general audiences. I'm talking specifically about commercials, language, oversexualization....all of it. Did there not used to be a rule that publicly available tv and radio stations had to behave themselves until after 9pm? What happened to that??
If it's "art" that life is imitating, then I fail to see the beauty. This could be fixed. It won't be, though. Why?
Well, I'm sure you can guess.
I wish I didn't have to turn the radio station because my kids just heard half of a tasteless sex joke, or because the announcer said "ass". I wish I didn't have to sit up with scared kids because some "approved for all audiences" commercial had scary images, or that they were exposed to almost-but-not-quite-naked women squirming around seductively. (There's a fantastic role model! And they wonder why 7 year olds are wearing make-up.) And I don't even have cable!
Maybe I'll give up and move to a little stone house on the English countryside. Jake would probably love it.
Sulk, sulk.
Hey, America. Why don't you create something worth imitating?
so true!!!!!!!!!!! we cancelled cable when i was pregnant (to save money) and because we couldn't stand to watch it. that said, occasionally we will watch something on the internet. most recently it was the Jamie Oliver food revolution and we were really upset by the commercial that came on. I was shocked that ABC would play these during a PG rated show!! That was the last show i will watch on abc.com. I'm done with tv, even online. Netflix has replaced all of that for me.
ReplyDeletelol. i love the grammar in my post. i would blame it on lack of sleep, but i slept really well last night!!! hehe
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