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kutulu · 02-28-2007, 10:06 AM

This is crap. The sole purpose of a TV station is to make money. To do that, they have programming. TV has minimal educational value (same with most 'educational' toys and video games) and in between that they toss marketting at the kids. Fuck, the shows themselves exist to market the product line for the TV show. Have the kids sit down and watch Dora, then take them to the store so that they can wear Dora pajamas, sleep in their Dora sheets, use Dora soap/grooming products, dry off with their Dora towel, get dressed with their Dora clothes, put lunch in the Dora lunchbox... see where I'm going? It's sick.

People plop their kids down in front of the TV so that they can get a break from them. They actually believe that the kids are getting some sort of educational value out of it and in reality all they are getting is a lesson in what to buy.

We do our best to limit our daughter's exposure to TV. She has the rest of her life to be influenced by marketting.

02-28-2007, 10:06 AM	#15 (permalink)
kutulu Junkie	This is crap. The sole purpose of a TV station is to make money. To do that, they have programming. TV has minimal educational value (same with most 'educational' toys and video games) and in between that they toss marketting at the kids. Fuck, the shows themselves exist to market the product line for the TV show. Have the kids sit down and watch Dora, then take them to the store so that they can wear Dora pajamas, sleep in their Dora sheets, use Dora soap/grooming products, dry off with their Dora towel, get dressed with their Dora clothes, put lunch in the Dora lunchbox... see where I'm going? It's sick. People plop their kids down in front of the TV so that they can get a break from them. They actually believe that the kids are getting some sort of educational value out of it and in reality all they are getting is a lesson in what to buy. We do our best to limit our daughter's exposure to TV. She has the rest of her life to be influenced by marketting. Last edited by kutulu; 02-28-2007 at 10:10 AM..