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Say you have a 10 year old, and the kid says he saw an ad for a new TV show he wants to watch, and asks you if he can watch it. You monitor your kids viewing habits, and you have never heard of the show, so you ask your kid to describe the ad.
"Well, Dad," your kid says, "Here's what happens. A teen-age boy wakes up naked in the middle of a forest. He gets up, and starts walking around. He comes across a tent. He opens up the tent and sees a teenage couple getting ready to have sex. The boy gets sent to juvenile hall. Down there, they figure out this kid is somehow not right, so a woman decides to take him into her home, although she knows nothing about him and the boy does not seem to know how to act around people, she figures he can't do any harm. The teen-age boy continues to do inappropriate things, like leer at the teen-age daughter as she runs around in a bath towel, and hide behind the shower curtain so he can watch a 10 year old boy sit on the toilet and look through pornographic magazines."
You have heard enough. "Absolutely not!" you tell your kid. "I will not let you watch anything that inappropriate!"
"But dad, the show is OK. The show is callled Kyle XY and it's on the ABC Family Channel!"
Oh, yes the Faamilllyyy channel. What is it about this country that everytime the word "family" is used that people shut down the thinking part of their brains and drift into the images of a Norman Rockwell painting? Families are all about baseball, ice cream, apple pie and everything that is supposed to make America great. Stick the word "family" into anything you are trying to sell, and people will no longer question your motives or actions.
Over the months, the ABC Family channel (which also airs The 700 Club) has aired such "family" friendly fare at the first Austin Powers movie, Blazing Saddles, and (my favorite programming choice of theirs) Cruel Intentions.
What I don't understand is why the Brent Bozells of the world, those people that worried that we are all going to hell because Janet Jackson's floppy tit got airtime during the Super Bowl, those people that photocopied and sent letters to the FCC that ulimately resulted in hefty fines for the incident, never direct their attacks against the ABC Family Channel? Instead, they rail on about The Sopranos, South Park, and other shows that are clearly not designed or marketed towards children.
Could it be that they are hyprocrites, that they would never take on of their own (Pat Robertson) to task?
And why doesn't the media ever point out this inconsistency? Brent Bozell gets a lot of coverage when he makes a statement about a show, but no one ever questions the shows he chooses to attack versus the ones he lets get a free pass (like Kyle XY).
"Well, Dad," your kid says, "Here's what happens. A teen-age boy wakes up naked in the middle of a forest. He gets up, and starts walking around. He comes across a tent. He opens up the tent and sees a teenage couple getting ready to have sex. The boy gets sent to juvenile hall. Down there, they figure out this kid is somehow not right, so a woman decides to take him into her home, although she knows nothing about him and the boy does not seem to know how to act around people, she figures he can't do any harm. The teen-age boy continues to do inappropriate things, like leer at the teen-age daughter as she runs around in a bath towel, and hide behind the shower curtain so he can watch a 10 year old boy sit on the toilet and look through pornographic magazines."
You have heard enough. "Absolutely not!" you tell your kid. "I will not let you watch anything that inappropriate!"
"But dad, the show is OK. The show is callled Kyle XY and it's on the ABC Family Channel!"
Oh, yes the Faamilllyyy channel. What is it about this country that everytime the word "family" is used that people shut down the thinking part of their brains and drift into the images of a Norman Rockwell painting? Families are all about baseball, ice cream, apple pie and everything that is supposed to make America great. Stick the word "family" into anything you are trying to sell, and people will no longer question your motives or actions.
Over the months, the ABC Family channel (which also airs The 700 Club) has aired such "family" friendly fare at the first Austin Powers movie, Blazing Saddles, and (my favorite programming choice of theirs) Cruel Intentions.
What I don't understand is why the Brent Bozells of the world, those people that worried that we are all going to hell because Janet Jackson's floppy tit got airtime during the Super Bowl, those people that photocopied and sent letters to the FCC that ulimately resulted in hefty fines for the incident, never direct their attacks against the ABC Family Channel? Instead, they rail on about The Sopranos, South Park, and other shows that are clearly not designed or marketed towards children.
Could it be that they are hyprocrites, that they would never take on of their own (Pat Robertson) to task?
And why doesn't the media ever point out this inconsistency? Brent Bozell gets a lot of coverage when he makes a statement about a show, but no one ever questions the shows he chooses to attack versus the ones he lets get a free pass (like Kyle XY).
posted by Beukey @ 6:36 AM
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