Re: Are we protected from Junk Food Corporations?
From: Helena (helenasand_2_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/03/04
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Date: 3 Sep 2004 07:11:35 -0700
nolionnoproblem@hotmail.com (DonQuijote1954) wrote in message news:<4e4a3f58.0409021707.26604259@posting.google.com>...
> "Lictor" <ghostmlNOSPAM-REMOVE@online.fr> wrote in message news:<41375974$0$31667$79c14f64@nan-newsreader-07.noos.net>...
> > "MikeL" <MikeL@elnet.com> wrote in message
> > news:3rd8j0lened2a1l0ob8aaho88bmbbm10p0@4ax.com...
> > > Well maybe we should ban televisions since many parents use them as
> > > babysitter. You certainly can reduce your child's exposure to this
> > > propaganda by creating a life other than watching TV 10 hours a day.
> >
> > Well, the problem is that things are not always that easy.
> > For instance, I always had the TV in my bedroom as a kid. So, I could pick
> > whatever I wanted to watch, and whenever I wanted to. If I wanted to watch
> > to watch rated movies, I could. Not because my parents where careless, but
> > because they thought I was mature enough to enjoy the freedom. So, I saw
> > plenty of movies on TV, including some I was not supposed to see as a kid,
> > like Clockwork Orange. But this never prevented me from moving around. I was
> > an avid biker as a kid, as that was how I would go to school daily. I was
> > also a good walker, taking a 40km walk with my dad was always a pleasant
> > thing to do. As an adult, I watch TV from time to time, but I can do without
> > it. Mostly, I will watch when there is something really good on it, mostly
> > serials (Sopranos, Six Feet Under). I don't bother with movies, I just go to
> > the cinema or rent them. I watch it for around 1 hour a day.
> > On the other hand, my girlfriend was educated like you. She was only allowed
> > to watch a part of the evening movie with her parents, and then, off to bed.
> > As an adult, she doesn't watch TV a lot more than I do, but when she does,
> > she is completely hypnotized. Like being in trance; you can talk to her and
> > she won't even notice. Or she will stop in the middle of a sentence, and
> > never finish it.
> > So, sometimes, direct solutions lead to weird results. Having unlimited and
> > self-regulated access to TV meant for me that it was just another tool to
> > access information. It lost any kind of magical value it could have had to
> > me. On the other hand, it has remained a magical and fascinating item to my
> > girlfriend.
>
> I wouldn't blame it on television but on *bad* television and
> commercials. The crap on commercial TV and commercials really
> perpetuate the intellectual poverty that Dr. Mengele blames on
> "genes." The poor got little chance to survive the commercial barrage
> as a smart human being.
>
> That's why I propose that we should have a commercial free television,
> independent of both the State and Big Business, not much different
> from the BBC (before it was censored)...
>
> "TV and radio should be independent of Big Business and the State.
> (This is due to two reasons: culturally, because the ratings make bad
> programs become "good"... for business; and, politically, because
> whoever has power over the media... will be in power; however, people
> should be able to watch anything on video and cable; the BBC offers us
> and example of an independent media.)"
>
> http://webspawner.com/users/donquijote1
Well I don't think banning TV and radio is a solution here or pointing
the blame on anyone else. Lictor has a point with this statement:
>>The problem is that the pattern is self repeating. How do you think
these
kids will educate their kids?
This is very important to understand and I think you are right on. Who
else do we learn from except from who we are raised by? Be it our
nutrition and exercise habits. But I definitely don't agree with
pushing the accountability on anyone except for myself.
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