OMG, The Parents Television Council Needs to STFU

Casey says:
Fri, 6th Nov 20094:47 pm 

I don’t know if this is still how it’s done, but when we were younger TV shows were paid for by the companies who advertised during commercial breaks, and the product placements in the shows, so the shows are essentially paid for by the consumers of those products (some TV might be free, but the shows certainly aren’t free to make)

That being said, if the parents that don’t approve of the show buy the products that pay for the show, then yes, they are “PAYING for it”.

But while it sucks that there are people out there petitioning/ protesting, or whatever it is they are doing, against one of our favorite shows, it is their right defined by our constitution.

But I disagree with the statement, “the author is right”, cause, not really. The author says any kid with half a brain could figure out that the show is not reality, but depending on the age of the kids that are stumbling upon this show, kids are very impressionable, they think what they see is real because they can’t yet differentiate between real and imaginary, (imaginary friends, hello?) which is why you don’t show your young children horror movies.

There was an article on here a week or so ago about Miley Cyrus’s little sister dressing “skanky”, and well it’s the same concept. The younger kids want to do what the older kids are doing.

Whoever made the point that even though, like the author says, the characters are no longer in high school, but some of the viewing audience might be, is right. The show only started 2 years ago, and while the characters have gone through what 4 years, their lives move a lot faster on screen then the viewers do in real life. If someone started watching a show about high schoolers when they were a freshman in high school or an 8th grader going into high school, then those people are still in high school right now, viewing a show that has changed a lot.

Now, I don’t think this show was never really meant for high school students, but when it first started that’s how it appeared so parents may have let their kids start watching it, now they don’t like where it’s headed and instead of telling their own children they can’t watch it (because parent’s really don’t know how to parent anymore) they are going after the show, THAT I don’t agree with, but it’s still their right to do it if they want.