Oh NOES!

Dec. 4th, 2006 06:22 pm
per_solo: (Smug Han)
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Article on CNN pointed out. http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/12/04/doctors.inappropriate.ads.ap/index.html

"Young people view more than 40,000 ads per year on television alone and increasingly are being exposed to advertising on the Internet, in magazines, and in schools," the policy says.

Advertising examples cited in the statement include TV commercials for sugary breakfast cereals and high-calorie snacks shown during children's programs and ads for Viagra and other erectile dysfunction drugs shown during televised sports games.

The statement also is critical of alcohol ads that feature cartoonish animal characters; fast-food ads on educational TV shown in schools; magazine ads with stick-thin models and toy and other product "tie-ins" between popular movie characters and fast-food restaurants.

These pervasive ads influence kids to demand poor food choices, and to think drinking is cool, sex is a recreational activity and anorexia is fashionable, the academy says."

Sex isn't a recreational activity? I...I...I feel so let down. My entire world is shattering, and everything I thought I knew of the world is no longer. Up is now down, left is right, dogs and cats are living together, and some nagging part of my brain is telling me that there truly IS peace in the middle east now.

I am mystified. :-)

Date: 2006-12-04 11:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] echoweaver.livejournal.com
Yeah, and they forgot the part where people in general and youth in particular are becoming less succeptable to commercials.

Date: 2006-12-05 02:44 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mihrimah.livejournal.com
Well, I don't know about other places, but there's both a dog and a cat living in this house in perfect harmony. Mostly perfect. Occasionally the cat swats the dog, but only when there's food involved.

Date: 2006-12-05 04:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] goldstep.livejournal.com
Instead of the cats and dogs you could mention that people admire thinkers and scholars for their hard work.

Date: 2006-12-05 06:06 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] confusedjew.livejournal.com
i know i haven't really partaken of sex, at least not with another person, but yeah i always thought it was at least supposed to be fun.

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