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Originally Posted by ARTelevision
Good question Seeker, and not one easily addressed - especially by the "parental responsibility" shibboleth.
I find it quite unconvincing that a parental unit is seen as somehow having the ability to negate the influence of sophisticated hundreds-of-millions-of-dollar media blitzes, the amassed effects of a total-surround-environment of media manipulation, the assembled manifold of social, cultural, and peer pressure. It sounds good, I suppose, to recite the parental-responsibility slogans but I cannot envision a parent or parents with the necessary superhuman power to effectively repel these influences.
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I know that there are other threads available for discussing media influence, but I'll just say that I disagree with your characterization of the media as this all encompassing force that is more powerful than other social influences. I'm familiar with the media influence literature, and I just don't buy it. It certainly has effects (effects demonstrated in research on the topic), but I don't think it requires "superhuman power" for parents to influence their children above and beyond the media.
I also wouldn't characterize statements about parental responsibility as just "slogans". Parents exert a great deal of social influence over their children. It's evident in the article and has been demonstrated empirically elswhere.