Violence! Violence! Violence! Burps! Nose Picking!

[MountainLaurel]

Today's winner of the best headline award.

Self-appointed TV watchdog Brent Bozell has put out the gazillionth study on children's television, in which he reveals that there is more violence on children's entertainment programming than in prime time.

Over a three-week period in the summer of 2005, his minions watched after-school and Saturday morning programming on ABC, Fox, NBC, the WB, ABC Family, Cartoon Network, Disney Channel and Nickelodeon, for a total of 443.5 hours of kids' fare.

"The results were staggering," the study from Bozell's Parents Television Council said, citing 3,488 instances of violence -- an average of 7.86 per hour.

"Even when the innocent, 'cartoony' violence most of us grew up with (e.g. an anvil falling on Wile E. Coyote's head) is extracted, there were still 2,794 instances of violence for an average of 6.30 violent incidents per hour."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/02/AR2006030202097.html

[ET Awful]

1. What? No fornication?

TV producers must be slacking. If the headline can't read "Violence! Violence! Sex! Violence! Fornication! Violence! Violent Fornication! Burps! Nose Fornication VIolence, I mean Picking!" then they must be doing something wrong :P

[purr]

2. We need fornication!

:P

[MountainLaurel]

3. Of course not

Exposing children to people killing one another is our duty as Americans, but letting them see a nekkid booby is a travesty.

[ThomCat]

4. It'll scar them for life.

OhmyGOD, how could anyone let a child see a boobie? :eyes:

[MountainLaurel]

6. You do realize I was being facetious?

:hi:

[ThomCat]

7. Absolutely.

I was agreeing with you entirely, in word and spirit. :pals:

[MountainLaurel]

8. Just checking.

I'm just a little braindead this Friday and wanted to make sure I had expressed myself appropriately.

[Benfea]

5. There are worse things than exposing a child to a nekkid booby, you know.

What if some godless commie makes a video that asks children to not hate?



Dear GAWD, what is this world comin' to when such obscenities are foisted on chilluns? What kind of monster asks children to not hate?

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

9. I think kids need to watch more violence.

:hide:

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

10. Sounds like he'd enjoy ...

[MountainLaurel]

11. Oh my heavens.

Is that for real?

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

12. Yup!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0273896/
http://www.thefilmasylum.com/reviews/the_nostril_picker/nostril.htm

[MountainLaurel]

13. Dude, that's just WRONG

:rofl: