Have we as a society gone to far with what is advertised on RADIO & TV?

[tutala]

Today on my way to town @ 8.30 in the morning I was listening to k-rock. And could not believe what I heard. It was a comercial for Sex toys. I just about craped my pants. I have kids that are considered tweens. I let them listen to that station all the time. Well that was until today. I believe that is way beyond the the limits of what should be on the radio. What the adults do in the privacy of thier bedrooms should stay there. I was talking to a friend about it later today and she said that she found her daughter on the very same website advertised on k-rock looking at the stuff her daughter is eleven. When questioning her daughter about she discovered that kids had heard about from the radio/tv and were checking this stuff out on the internet.

So I believe that those things should be on tv/radio unless is a ppv thing that the adult is veiwing in an controled enviroment.

I am just in shock that we have let our society get this uncontrolled! We need to make things like this change.

[Sam I Am]

I completely agree with you Alex. The small kids in my family are not allowed to watch TV alone and not allowed to watch much of the evening fare. It's sad that life has become so harsh. Have we become so desensitized to violence and salaciousness that it's become the norm?

[Zannie]

Go figure Sam. It's disgusting. The daily soap operas have become soft porn and violence and death is the order of the day on television and in the movies. It's pathetic.

[Winkle Fartenstein]

I agree, you have to monitor--but then kids cannot watch tv much at all with cialis and tampon commercials on all the time.

[Zannie]

lol Winkle. I like to watch reruns of Frasier. Every night an ad comes on for cialis or viagra or "male enhancement" pills. They seem to last five minutes or so. At any rate they are interminable. Maybe they should call their doctors because the ads seem to go on longer than that troublesome four hour mark the ads warn you about.

Then, I was watching the other night and I almost blew tea through my nose laughing at a new commercial. It shows two young women at a cafe - like starbucks or something - and one of them has a Trojan finger vibrator adorned with little feather-like things. She is actually wearing it on her finger and the two women are giggling and whispering to each other. Then one asks the other where they can buy them. An older woman, with a very bad, red hair dye job, leans over to tell them "Don't worry girls. You can get them on the internet. That's where I got mine." I s**t you not!!! I just about died laughing and I was so glad I didn't have like preteen kids around, you know? This was shown around midnight.

Again, good luck to all you parents out there.

[tutala]

I Agree with you about the violence!! I do try to keep my from watchig as much of that as i can.

[david buskirk]

yes to much sex and language on tv radio. I have to agree with you. It is dissapointing to know that our governement doesn't do to much regulation on much of anything any more. All they have been doing over the years is deregulatiing just about anything and everything. It has increased the ripe off artists of all the big companies and give them more money in their pockets. It is a shame.

[Lois Nehm]

we could pick apart every program on tv and on the radio until we are blue in the face, but one thing will never change some one is going to have a problem with something. bottom line if you don't agree with it don't let your kids watch or listen to it. i can't shelter my kids from the world so i explain it to them. when they hear something inapprorpriate and repeat it i tell them why it is inapprorpriate and why they shouldn't say it, it usually stops there. i feel that it prepares them for life in general. you can't control anyone but yourself. you can't control how anyone acts so control how you re-act. someone great once said, "we shelter our kids for 16 years but as soon as they get their driver's licence we expect them to know how how to act with out supervision." the bottom line is who should decide what is decent for anyone else?

[Pete Graham]

I agree whole heartedly Lois...I may not want my or anyone else's kids to see or hear anything innapropriate, but don't take my right away to be able to decide if I want to do the same...

[Winkle Fartenstein]

I see your point, guess that is why there is an off button

[Lois Nehm]

thanks pete, we always have the option to turn it off... gasp...with that said my hour's up gotta go

[Zannie]

I gotta agree with you both on that one - censorship is not the answer. I just really feel sorry for you parents. I don't think I'd be brave enough to have a tv in my house if I had little kids....I'm way too overprotective, I'll admit that. And I admire you guys who have kids and try to work through it with them.

[Kelly Kelley]

I guess I would have to agree that things being broadcasted, (in general), have gone WAY too far.
I'm Not trying to be a "prude". In fact, I am FAR from it. But I truly believe that there is a better age, to learn about certain things.
I remember when I was just a little "sprout", and some mean teenagers yelled something ugly, out the car window, as they drove by. I didn't know what it meant. I felt stupid, and eventually asked my Mom what they meant by it. The point is, I remember the impact it had on me. I was disillusioned and disgusted. And not in a..."Oh, you mean there is NO Santa Clause?", kind of way, either. But in a way that made me disappointed in people, and kind of scared of their true intentions.
I realize that we ALL come to a point in life, when we see the world around us as it truly is. And we see people without the filter of our "rose colored glasses". But why introduce all the yucky, crap to the innocent little ones, before they even need to know about it all? ya know? They have the rest of their lives to be shocked and amazed at the outrageous things life and people will bring to them.
It must be VERY hard to be a parent now days. I love my neice and nephew to pieces, but I am SO happy I don't have any "kidletts" of my own, because I'm afraid I would make 'em crazy, trying to protect them from all the creepy-creeps and bad stuff out there. So, yeah...I would have to agree...they've gone way too far on a lot of things. /