[trubluolyguy]

Our ad writers bulldoze right past it into crudeness.

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Yet another reason that the remote is one of man's greatest inventions. She whines about the ad, but did she turn the channel?

[fr_freak]

Yet another reason that the remote is one of man's greatest inventions. She whines about the ad, but did she turn the channel?

I think you missed the entire point of her article. She was not whining that she had to experience these ads. She was merely pointing out that these ads are symptoms of a larger societal problem. That our society would accept such crudeness on broadcast TV, something that would have been unthinkable 40 years ago, is an indicator of the general coarsening of our culture. The "change the channel" argument doesn't apply here in the least.

In my own opinion, the "change the channel" argument when referring to vulgarity and blatant sexuality on broadcast TV is equivalent to the argument that people should be allowed to do whatever they want (i.e. engage in soft-core pron, scream profanity, etc.) inthe town square, and if people don't like it, they can go somewhere else; no one is forcing them to be there. Broadcast TV, like the town square, is a shared domain, a community place, and there should be enforceable standards.