Marcelo Calbucci

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Monday, June 16, 2008

Why Americans are so tolerant of violence?

    Yesterday watching the NBA finals with my son, I thought we would have a great time since he’s two-years old and loves basketball (and soccer, and golf, and baseball, …), but instead, I was on stress mode on every interval and timeout.

 

    Sports are considered TV-G, which means that anyone of any age can watch, but the commercials during the interval are just insanely violent. From what I can recall, there was a guy run over by a car (for a series on ABC), a Playstation 3 war game ad, and countless other ads where the content was absolutely not TV-G.

 

    Now, don’t get me wrong, I love violent movies and violent video games, and I do know everything my son’s watch on TV (and I watch with him), but commercials for adult products on a family show are just wrong. I much rather my son see sexy girls making out or non-nipple display on the Super Bowl than people shooting each other.

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