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Supergranny
Member
02-03-2005
| Friday, August 24, 2007 - 6:53 pm
Most sponsors who promote family values, such as JC Penney for example, are very sensitive to complaints about shows they sponsor. Just had a football player accused of dog fighting, he hadn't even made a plea yet, and his sponsors were dropping like flies. The thought of a 44 year old man threatening to rape a 23 year old girl in the butt until she bleeds, hey those family sponsors are not going to be pleased with that kind of publicity.
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Friday, August 24, 2007 - 7:31 pm
That may be so, but the sponsors are sponsoring the TV show, not the live feeds. They have not shown anyone saying that sort of thing on the TV show. We may think that they are one and the same but many TV viewers and the sponsors may feel differently. There is a distinct separation between the live feeds and the TV show. We all know that football players, basketball players, baseball players and hockey players swear and curse at each other and exchange derogatory remarks during the course of a game. However, those remarks are not broadcast on TV. It would be inappropriate (IMO) to boycott the sponsors of the TV broadcast of those sporting events because the players are making remarks that aren't heard on the TV show. All these protests might succeed in doing is getting CBS to kill the live feeds. Then we can all be happily ignorant and blissful about players like Dick instead of seeing the whole picture of what is happening on the show.
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Supergranny
Member
02-03-2005
| Friday, August 24, 2007 - 7:43 pm
But on the tv show they urge viewers to tune to Showtoo or get live feeds. To kids that's the same thing as condoning the acts. Myself I feel like there is too much brutality shown on tv...period. I'm not some goody goody but in all my years I see the kids getting desensitized to violence. We are having too many kids turning into killers when they are but babes. So who knows that they now see this "hero" talk about anal rape and the kids think that is ok for them to do. It gives them permission in other words. If my contacting these sponsors and pointing out just what is happening on this show does one tiny bit of awareness...I say go for it!
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Jeanne
Member
07-15-2005
| Friday, August 24, 2007 - 7:46 pm
Who in their right mind, IMO, would be letting hildren watch the BB feeds or even Showtoo?
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Earthmother
Member
07-14-2002
| Friday, August 24, 2007 - 7:47 pm
This is adult entertainment and it's up to parents to make sure their kids don't watch Showtime. No kids should be seeing the feeds or they aren't being supervised. We as adults should be able to chose what kind of ADULT entertainment we watch and not have family values of others deciding that. We are not responsible for anyone's children but the parents.
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Kimsue
Member
07-08-2005
| Friday, August 24, 2007 - 7:50 pm
Well...This is an interesting thread. I'd have to give it more thought. I think ED is over the top but then I've met many like him. I guess I am desensitised to him as well as many in life. At this point I'd have to say no thanks to the boycotting idea. I just don't care. My thought is that we all know it takes all kinds to make a show like this. That is the premise of the show, to put a diverse group in a house and let them play the game. Obviously Jen did a good job of putting up with ED's BS. She was never so put out that she walked out the door and that was always an option.
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Cndeariso
Member
06-28-2004
| Friday, August 24, 2007 - 7:54 pm
very well said both Earthmother and Kimsue. bravo!!!
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Friday, August 24, 2007 - 8:00 pm
Show too is the adult version of Showtime and kids shouldn't be watching it. That's up to their parents to monitor. And yeah, same with the feeds. Kids are not turning into killers because of Big Brother... Where I used to live it was the gangs, lack of supervision and what I observed to be a real feeling that they wouldn't live long and that they had no hope for the future.. ans the kids I speak of were bright kids, bilingual, but they didn't believe they were bright, or didn't care. Broke my heart, really.
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Csnog
Member
07-18-2002
| Friday, August 24, 2007 - 8:03 pm
Seems like every year we have a thread to boycott the sponsors. Sigh-------- Every June we can't wait for BB to begin.
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Kimsue
Member
07-08-2005
| Friday, August 24, 2007 - 8:06 pm
Csnog..LOL
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Darclyte
Member
07-11-2005
| Friday, August 24, 2007 - 8:15 pm
CBS changed the format of this game back in BB2 with the whole idea that more conflict would occur and every year there's more conflict than some people can stand. Believe me, there are LOTS of more important things going on in the world that need our attention more than boycotting advertisers on some "reality" show. If violence and abuse is a big deal for anyone, I'm sure there are local shelters in your area for abused kids or battered women, or even abused men, that could use your help. How about a hospice for injured soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan? They and their families could probably use your help. Those would be far more productive for society than boycotting advertisers for some tv show. Or boycott the sponsors. And once you're off the phone with them, head out and go help some people struggling with REAL problems that are suffering from abuse and its after effects and they weren't even on tv trying for $500,000 while getting abused or harmed. Just some food for thought, but you're free to do whatever you think is best.
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Darclyte
Member
07-11-2005
| Friday, August 24, 2007 - 8:22 pm
If kids are watching this show, they have bad parents. This is an adult show. If kids are looking at ED as a role model or hero, they really have bad parents. Their parents should be their role models, and ED's behavior should be discussed as to why it's wrong. Same goes with all the other HGs and their various issues...but again the best advice for kids is not to not buy products from the show's sponsors, but to not watch the show. Have them go read a book during that hour. Any book. A classic, a biography, a history book, or a religious book. I hear there's a new Harry Potter book out there they can read.
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Robin42
Member
07-20-2007
| Friday, August 24, 2007 - 8:46 pm
If we started censoring everything on TV and making it "kid-friendly", there would be nothing but Hannah Montana and Disney on every channel. People have the right to watch low taste shows and advertisers have the right to peddle their wares to those people. Boycott if you want, I don't think Pepsi, Verizon or any of the companies, will notice.
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Dbald
Member
08-04-2007
| Friday, August 24, 2007 - 8:55 pm
Let me just say this before Zachsmom shows up in here...If we censored everything we had access to we would all live in Happy Flower Kitty Land...lol...i kill myself...just had to say it before Zachsmom did cuz we know she will. That is her special place. There is a special way we all have to censor tv shows...it called changed the channel.
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Tntitanfan
Member
08-03-2001
| Friday, August 24, 2007 - 9:22 pm
Darclyte - thank you! I volunteer at a number of different venues that serve people in real need. Our food bank - one of the oldest in the country - serves 34 counties which is about a third of the state. There are numerous families that are one paycheck away from being homeless. That means that an accident or illness to a breadwinner will put anywhere from three to seven people on the street. This sort of knowledge keeps me grounded about the "dreadful problems" on reality TV -
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Beruthiel
Member
08-07-2000
| Saturday, August 25, 2007 - 12:51 am
Yup, if I had time to complain about anything I'd write my MP about them dropping the Kyoto accord, or failing to act on the cruelty to animals statute. I thought there was a free speech amendment in the US? Isn't censorship against the law, unless it's for the protection of the innocent? Changing the channel is a lot easier, and NOT watching the feeds is easier still.
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Kep421
Member
08-11-2001
| Saturday, August 25, 2007 - 4:55 am
I would like to point out there there are many "happy flower kitty land" channels available for those who prefer their viewing to be of that genre. Family Channel...DSC...History...Biography...etc. the list could go on and on....I visit them often when I need to relax and just enjoy....I go to shows like AR and BB when I need the angst and hair pulling involvment stuff...LOL I don't think of BB as violent...but WWF? that's nother can of worms...LOL Video entertainment should be for everyone...not just one group's idea of entertainment. BTW...parents should also monitor the book reading as well...Just as all shows are not for children...not all BOOKS are either...Reading Of Mice and Men when I was but 11 (I thought it was like Wind in the Willows) changed my whole view of the adult world...there was no reasoning with me after that!!!
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