Pardon me for going on a tangent, but I think this is relevant.
These days whenever there is a fight to be fought against corporate America the opposition is always bringing the "poor children" into the fight. Special interest groups are using children as a weapon to fight the battles that can't be won without bringing innocent children into the mix.
Music with nasty lyrics was forcing kids into murder, drugs, and satanism so we slapped labels on the record as if a label won't make it more appealing. Same goes for smoking, TV, movies, and video games. Now we have these insane fines that can be imposed by subjective people based on vague regulations. Are the children safe now? Is everything perfect?
I'm all for enforcing clear and strict policies regarding actual truth in advertising. If they want to say it is healthy they better have damn good proof that it is, otherwise they can face strict penalties such as bans against any advertising for a certain time period or monetary fines.
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Originally posted by raeanna74
The problem is that even if I only allow my daughter to watch 30 minutes of Nickelodian or Nick Jr a day she will see approximately 30-50 commercials or more a week. Plus my 4 yr old daughter has the chance to view commericals for Condoms with "Trojan Man" before I realize a the commerical is even on. Then there's the Nick Jr and even Public Television websites that she enjoys going to that have pop-ups like you wouldn't believe.
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How else do you expect to have television for free or cable television at a low price without having advertisements? Should Nickelodean be running ads based on the target group for the show or should they have Depends and mutual investment advertisements in there? I know what you're saying but you don't seem like you're being realistic with your expectations.
If the government starts shutting things down corporations lose money. They don't like that so they lay people off, hire less, charge more, or do all three things plus others. They are important parts of healthy competition and an economy.
I get the impression that people are vastly unaware of the power of the consumer or they are unwilling to put in the time needed to fight against the corporations. If it's the content you are offended by, there are groups that protest advertising and program content. When they've gotten enough pressure from those groups things have changed.
I guess it's the minute conservative or liberatarian part of me that says that we can't expect the govt to intervene every time we have a problem with corporate America.