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I feel that this is a topic that needs to be discussed. This topic has been under much debate for many years. By graphic, I mean in terms of sex and violence.
Are television programs becoming too graphic?
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Yes, this is an ongoing problem. It seems like television companies are becoming so greedy and desperate for money that now they are getting more graphic with promoting sex and violence. It's getting worse by the day.
Naw . . . I wanna see more naked dancing girls onna teevee, hehehehehehehehehehehe!
Seriously though, the content of television and movies are dictated by the viewer and what the viewer is willing to pay to see.
In my early youth it was Westerns and Musicals and some historically correct docudramas.
A short time later it became the SciFi-Horror type and stuff like that.
Then came along the epic SciFi films (Star Wars, ET, Close Encounters of the Third Kind), but today it seems to be the Comic Book Hero type film and movies that are drawing the biggest crowds.
Here is one solution to the problem of what you may not like to see on television – Change the channel.
Television shows and movies are consumer driven – if the consumer does not consume the product, then the product gets canceled.
Already this new season of television has seen three shows dumped after just one or two showings because they did not draw enough viewers so sponsors pulled their ads from the shows – no sponsors = no show.
Solution; If you do not like the content of the show, then do not watch it. if enough people do this then the show will disappear. Problem solved.
Just my not-so-humble opinion.
Don't care. Change the channel if it is getting ugly.
Yea, but children could be watching.
Yes, in my opinion it is getting too graphic, but I agree, that each consumer must decide if they want to watch or not.
That's such a load of crap. I'm a big free market advocate and I'm not interested in violence and sex being restricted, but i am in favor of real rating systems that inform parents of what their child is watching and allow programs to be screened. Seriously, the rating systems are crap. Especially in the movies. When Titanic got a PG-13 (I was 13 at the time) I said, "Wow, so who got paid off to keep this movie from being rated R?" And it's not just the sex or violence either. There is loads of children's programming out their which is much more brainwashing and indoctrination than any sort of educational. There's no way I'm letting my kid(s) (when I have them) watch cable TV. I'll buy shows and movies on DVD and they can watch those, that way I'll know that nobody's polluting their mind.
Don't care.
Have you considered talking to them about content?
Just watch whatever you want, no one cares. If its too graphic for you, then you can change the channel but I think this question may pertain to how if influences people, especially the youth.
I believe it does affect the youth, because they do not know any better and are heavily influenced at such young ages. We know the difference between good and bad, graphic and not graphic, but they don't.
The movie ratings systems are fairly open sourced, but the better idea would be to detail what caused them. Violence and associated gore? Sex? Language? Cigarettes and drug use? And so on. If you leave out the details, then people (usually parents) don't get adequate information to try to filter out whatever it was they wanted filtered out. Content filtering is a very broad area to use a single code for. They do this for movie ratings, but it's generally a very small fine print that nobody notices and pretends to be shocked when they wander into the theatres.
For what it is worth, I disagree Titanic could have been R rated (I did think that it was a lame, highly overrated film). But this would be more in line with the supposed purpose of a PG-13 rating, to suggest parent/adult supervision, rather than to suggest that its content required such supervision.
That's a bit off putting and condescending. Have you seen some of the garbage on the ABC "Family" channel? and anything geared for kids is going to have ads that target kids. And then even if you buy the content, now they have unskipable content at the beginning of a lot of these Blu-Ray disks to advertise for more movies. It's always so trendy to blame parents, but that's because people don't want to realize that their indifference is creating a disturbing culture that our kids are absorbing.
It's easy for you to say when your older, but when you are younger, you don't know any better.
This can go back all the way to when I was talking about how Miley Cyrus is being way too graphic for children, even on the Disney Channel.
that or screening what they watch to begin with? its your job as a parent to do that
Agreed with Jared… you can't be every time near your child to see what he's watching at the TV !
Even cartoons are not like before, they have now a high grade of violence and blood in them.
This is definitely the era of SEX and VIOLENCE. There is no show or serial without any of that scene.