CONTROVERCIAL TELEVISION ADVERTISING
Today’s advertising companies represent themselves and their product to society with the use of sex, drugs and alcohol potentially posing a thereat to innocent adolescent minds. All over the world people watch television for purposes of education, entertainment and to alleviate boredom. So as you can tell it’s a part of our daily lives. What’s to be done when during a break form your favorite TV show you see a commercial about a man who needs to use sexual enhancement drugs so that he has more confidence in himself or a women’s exposed breasts during half time at a foot ball game on national television.
Controversial Television Advertising
Everywhere we go today we see some type of advertising, it could be in the supermarket, on a billboard, on the side of a bus, in the TV, and even on the radio. Most of this advertising are targeting children and teenagers and currently most of this advertisement are very controversial. Every day, we are bombarded with images within popular culture- advertising, in the television and these images try to sell us something--whether it is clothes, cars, or happiness. Television and other media represent one of the most important and under recognized influences on children and adolescents' health and behavior in the today. Their impact should be eliciting serious concern, not just from parents and educators but from physicians, public health advocates, and politicians as well .
Viewer Discretion Advised
Imagine attending a formal dinner party. The couple that is hosting the party has two sons; the children’s ages are three and four years old. The boys have been watching a somewhat inappropriate television station that has just aired an ad about Trojan condoms. The children come running out of the family room chanting “Trojan Man, Trojan Man!” This could be an awkward situation to explain to the guests. Who is to blame for such an incident? After an occurrence such as this one, some people might blame the advertising company or perhaps the television stations. Other people might say that this situation is caused by the parent’s lack of monitoring the television stations viewed by the children. Television advertising has become a very popular controversy in today’s society. Advertising is constantly evolving by becoming more explicit and descriptive as well as educational.
Children and Television Commercials 2
Children and Television Commercials;
Should they be so closely tied?
Are your children becoming the target of today’s “BIG BUSINESS”? There doesn’t seem to be a good time to watch television with your children. Whether its Saturday morning cartoons or Sunday night football, the constant bombardment of controversial television commercials is all around us. As father of two young children, ages three and five, I have noticed that today’s big business companies have targeted my children as consumers.
It’s hard not to notice the non-stop flood of commercials that are aimed directly at children. These commercials encourage today’s children to purchase all types of unhealthy.
