Further to the “Videogame Widows” post below, this intesting article based on a non-faith based, Parents Television Council study. Interesting. My gorgeous wife sent it to me. She doesn’t often post, so this tips my hat her way.
For those that care, I think it all has to do with worship – a human being fully alive to God (Iranaeus of Lyons).
KIDS’ TV GROWING MORE VIOLENT: STUDY
Some TV shows aimed at children are more violent than the primetime shows aimed at adults, a new study by the Los Angeles-based Parents Television Council has discovered.
But even more alarming than the amount of violence is its content. Many parents may not realize, said PTC president L. Brent Bozell in a news release, the “dark violence, sexual innuendo or offensive language” that has crept into some supposedly child-friendly shows.
“Popeye beat up Bluto and you cheered,” Bozell told the Associated Press. “Now the protagonists will be caught in dark, powerful, oftentimes scary scenarios where there is hard violence.” Examples, he said, are shows like Shaman King, Teen Titans or Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, which often feature intense fights with swords, guns and lasers.
The PTC analyzed 444 hours of children’s daytime programming last summer and counted 2,794 violent incidents — or 6.3 incidents per hour — not including cartoons like Road Runner. That is more than the PTC found in a 2002 study of adult-oriented primetime programming.
The group also noted that the dialogue in children’s shows has grown coarser, more mean-spirited and more prone to use sexual double-entendres.
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it is hard to be alive seating in a seat all day and there has to be betterthinhgs to fill our lives with than the stuff pumped at us from broadcasters and we should be more awarre of what we let our kids watch
big yeah to your wife
gary ni
Hmmm. Pumped into us. By our choice.
mm it would be great to watch and be inspired and uplifted and not have to secound guess or worry about programmes content. whatever things are…..
but we can not cut ourselves off from tv culture in the hope we will not be affected by it.it is in the dna of modern man i think we need to be wise and if required turn it off. i do feel a little outraged that people would make stuff with the main aim of corrupting kids is that what the survey is saying or that the current programme makers are a product of years of tv and progress seems to be always about making things more shocking
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