Comments on: Are television programs becoming too graphic?

By: jcdenton100

jcdenton100 — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 18:00:32 +0000

I think they all should go back to the way they were before. Cartoonetwork has finally lost it and let MAD tv make a new show for them, its discusting! like a childs adult swim! Nickelodean has become a program of live action shows and they only show spongebob now, and Disney channel has only one cartoon….phineous and pherb. I think they should all go back to the way they were before. Cartoonetwork had Toonami and Samurai Jack, Nickelodean had all those great cartoons such as, As told by ginger, Rugrats, Cat Dog. It got bad when they started making those freaky cartoons like invader zim and Mr. Meaty. Disney Channel has gotten stupid also…..who ever changed them is responsible for the corrupted children of today. And the children of the future.

By: Total_Request

Total_Request — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 19:08:06 +0000

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.

By: misty

misty — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:21:32 +0000

that or screening what they watch to begin with? its your job as a parent to do that

By: Jared

Jared — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:30:07 +0000

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.

By: Jared

Jared — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:10:20 +0000

It's easy for you to say when your older, but when you are younger, you don't know any better.

By: Andrew Clunn

Andrew Clunn — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:53:19 +0000

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.

By: Sun Tzu

Sun Tzu — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:33:11 +0000

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.

By: Sal

Sal — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:32:57 +0000

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.

By: Sun Tzu

Sun Tzu — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:43:26 +0000

Don't care.

Have you considered talking to them about content?

By: Andrew Clunn

Andrew Clunn — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:56:50 +0000

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.