Write Lightning is a blog from writer Deb Thompson.
Everyone is welcome here.
(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Everyone is welcome here.
(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Thu, Oct 22 2009
A government agency should not do a parent's job
I do not agree with the approach that Truthful Media has taken to the FCC. Kids know there is advertising almost everywhere these days. If parents haven't taught them that there is little the FCC or any other government agency can do to change that. I was a kid once and I knew that the products on TV and in movies could be real products that cost real money and that they could be there because they did something for the film (and vice versa). Kids now are much more sophisticated that I was. Believe me. They know a product when they see one. If parents don't yet know, that's another whole issue.
The entertainment industry is a business. It's a creative industry, but it's an industry. How about teaching kids that information and then let government agencies do the business of taking care of the basics of what our taxpayer money is there to pay them to do?
posted at: 16:38 | category: /Arts and Entertainment | link to this entry
I do not agree with the approach that Truthful Media has taken to the FCC. Kids know there is advertising almost everywhere these days. If parents haven't taught them that there is little the FCC or any other government agency can do to change that. I was a kid once and I knew that the products on TV and in movies could be real products that cost real money and that they could be there because they did something for the film (and vice versa). Kids now are much more sophisticated that I was. Believe me. They know a product when they see one. If parents don't yet know, that's another whole issue.
The entertainment industry is a business. It's a creative industry, but it's an industry. How about teaching kids that information and then let government agencies do the business of taking care of the basics of what our taxpayer money is there to pay them to do?
posted at: 16:38 | category: /Arts and Entertainment | link to this entry
