We rarely watch “normal” tv around here. Regular TV programming stems from Nick Jr. and Disney and occasionally the funniest animal home videos. My point is…its all cartoons, all the time. Enough to make someone go crazy, actually. I have literally caught myself home alone going through the onscreen TV guide and PAUSED on Spongebob Square pants thinking “ooh, this looks like a good one” before my sense breaks through.
However, on occasion, I take the TV back over and sit down and watch Scrubs….and its not the TV programming that bothers me, my daughter will hardly pay attention if its not colorful and animated, but the COMMERICIALS. Have you noticed that they are putting scary movie ads on earlier and earlier? I honestly do not appreciate a 4:30 20 second preview of The Strangers when any child under the age of a Rated R movie is in the room. Do we really need to expose our children to this crap right during the dinner time hours, where the entire family is at home…shouldn’t they be more “after 8pm” commercials, then flipping the channel to flashy, murder scenes?
Whats your opinion…do we, as parents, have to keep the TV tuned off of all major channels from 7am-8pm, or should movies have more corporate responsibility in their content?
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This bothers us too. My son likes to watch football with us. But the ads for adult movies during the middle of the day is getting out of hand.
We started letting the TiVo record the game and then we would switch it on about half an hour later so we could zip through the commercials!
My answer will pop on my blog at 4:50PM est.
Networks and movie houses should have the common decency to postpone those ads. HOWEVER, their main motivation is *not* family values. If anything it is taking power away from the parent. I’m a HUGE “family is the answer” person and the onus is sitting directly on the parents to control what comes into their house. Turn the tv off all together. That’s what we have done. Our daughter gets to watch one movie a day, and they’re movies we’ve purchased, so we know the content. No ads at all if you choose to skip over the previews and postviews.
Although the responsibility sits squarely on the parents’ shoulders that’s not to say that we shouldn’t take a little social action. Contact the networks to let them know those types of ads are unacceptable. They may not change their ways, but at least you’re making your opinion known.