“..is “reckless and irresponsible,” said PTC president Tim Winter”
- For a minute there, this looked like something else entirely.
I mean this as respectfully as possible, but any parent that thinks getting the show pulled from the air will stop their kids access to it is naive or stupid.
Uh, let’s count the ways:
1. iTunes
2. Online content distribution sites such as Hulu.com and a few dozen others that can be accessed through any online Internet connection or cell phone hooked to high speed service
3. Amazon.com’s On-Demand video rental or purchase for about $1.99 a title. All it would take is a debit card and an email address.
Not only is this sort of streaming content virtually un-filterable (and besides - any decent 14 year old knows how to disable a filter; they just act like they don’t), the notion that someone can somehow control access to information in the digital age is just - again - naive. Kids are going to see it. Very few people actually watch television on television anymore.
Better yet, stop watching TV. People should shut down the sewer pipe into their homes in masses. That’s the only way to get the industry’s attention... Much like what’s happened to newspapers today.
These people never learn. It was such an attempted boycott that put Married With Children and the Fox network on the map. The publicity saved the show and boosted the struggling new network.
CW execs probably cheered when they saw the press release. CW is this very moment likely spreading the news that OLD people don’t want their young audience to watch.
I wonder why parental groups haven't protested against that aspect of the show? I guess it's okay for one's daughter to be a shallow, materialistic monster as long as she isn't intimately involved with any young men.
This show is doing horribly in the ratings. It was going away without any help from the PTC. Their protest will only help the show.
Maybe that is what they want. Hard to make a living being outraged if you don’t have something to be outraged about.
CW is lame.
CW is lame.