Yeah, but it's ONLY a cartoon, right? /dripping sarc
Thanks for the post, AND the other relevant link.
I haven't had ANY TV (no cable in a pretty much cable only area) for 15 years. I had occasion, on a family vacation, to peruse some of the offerings of 'Cartoon Network' on our hotel room TV. When I was a kid, that kind of violence didn't appear in programming targeted at children,. In fact, the only 'cartoon' type place you could find it was in so-called 'comic' books like "Heavy Metal" and, of course, your parents would (rightfully) superheat your arse for bringing smut like that into the house.
http://www.heavymetalmagazinefanpage.com/history.html
Today, more than ever, parents must be gatekeepers of entry points that did not exist when they were growing up.
This point seems obvious, yet I am continually alarmed at the mass obliviousness to it that I find among parents.
No wonder why I like their stuff so much, even the non Adult Swim offerings!
BTTT
Oooh. You mean there will be something on TV worth watching?
(Seriously, folks, I had to watch Sat kiddie TV from the (really) late 60s through the early 80s. It wasn't pretty.)
Boy, this is a real non-starter for stirring up hatred of secular media.
Next!
Red flag - Power Rangers is not a cartoon. If you can't get the basic facts right, the rest of your argument goes out the window.
Try to find a decent cartoon on Saturday morning. Mostly they are anime-type characters who talk fast and are poorly drawn. Usually with shadowy themes such as dark magic and monsters. The other offerings are usually teenager sitcoms.
Real cartoons are dead.