What should or shouldn’t be shown on TV?

[David]

[stui magpie]

I had to do a double take when I realised there was a thread split.

To answer the question in the title, TV is a broad medium with lots of FTA stations, streaming platforms and other pay TV options and people are a broad audience with lots of variety in tastes.

So basically, TV shows what they think will get an audience and therefore attract advertisers /subscribers.

We already have a censorship board that classifies film and TV programs, they seem to do a decent job overall, so I don't see what the problem is.

As for the question about depicting Rape, I really doubt that any item of media whether it be movie, TV or doco that was seen to be supporting Rape as a fun family activity would even get made let alone get past the censors. As far as depicting it at all, I point to the 1988 Jodie Foster movie, The Accused as a class movie that had a fairly graphic depiction of a rape.

In regards to Skids comment about the AFLW, I see you and raise you Married at First Sight and the Batchelor/batchelorette series.

Given the choice of watching MAFS or AFLW for 12 hours straight or shooting myself in the head, I'd watch AFLW but ask them to leave the gun.

[think positive]

nah, they have better fights in MAFS!! (i watch in fast forward, and just slow the good bits, its hysterical!!)

David, sorry but i have to disagree, its not sexism, its just bloody terrible to watch! ive tried, ive really tried, but its just awful. not helped by the fact that our team could get done by a little league team, OMG so bad.

[K]

[David]

Certainly not!

[think positive]

The celebrations after the 2018 grand final, seriously **** off with that, put me in gitmo but set me free from that memory, talk about tip me over the $£$%^%%$ edge, GRRRR

[K]

David might like this ("What kinds of movies, video games, and music are we making?"):





A similar one (but this is getting away from the thread topic):

[David]

I dunno, I actually hate this genre of meme because pointing out double standards and hypocrisy on the other side is the easiest thing in the world (because you don't have to look far in any ideological grouping to find hypocrisy and double standards), but it's not actually a replacement for an intellectual argument. In this case, the meme designer is pointing out the way racial prejudice affects responses to violence – and fair enough – but what are they suggesting to us about the straw mainstream/conservative response to the white shooter they're offering? Is it good? Is it bad? Would it be okay if we were treating those shootings as simplistically as we are treating those committed by minorities, or should we be using the lower response for all such shootings? Ultimately we aren't given any indication, and that's probably because the person designing the meme hasn't even seriously considered these questions – "the other side are hypocrites" is about as far as it goes for them.

That's just oneupmanship, ultimately – a glorified pissing contest. We can do better.

[K]

Re. the latest shooter, the tabloid is running with the story that he became obsessed with "violent video games". (I have not seen details.) Of course, if that's true, we still don't know what is causal and what is symptomatic.

[Wokko]

Yeah, like Marilyn Manson caused Columbine. The media are pathetic.

[think positive]

I dont know anyone with that opinion in the meme, everyone ive spoken to says the same thing, damn shame he didnt swallow a bullet. (I havent had a private conversation with David about it so thats still true!!) thoughts and prayers are for the victims in every situation. id be hoping we dont have enough moronic people who would think thats a viable defence, to make any kind of ripple.

i would really like to see a complete survey done in the US, im not convinced the gun lobby would win. certainly not for the full weapon range they have.

on video games while i dont think you cam blame them, certainly they make it easier to imagine firing a real gun, and its target practice. combine that with drugs and its not good. you can say the same for yippee kayak mother £$%$er movies too, which i admit to devouring. problem is we are passed solving that problem, because they aint going away.

i dont accept excuses such as childhood trauma, blah blah blah, because i do believe in free will, but i do think a lot of the problem is as simple as not enough done to identify and cure or at least assist with mental illness. and chucking ADHD drugs at kids, in epidemic quantities, is not helping.

Is the Port Arthur killer getting mental health assistance? i believe hes virtually in solitary confinement for his own safety.

I watched a show this morning called kids that kill, in Florida they are trying to overturn a mandatory life sentence with no parole for kids who kill. It was really hard to watch and really thought provoking. A 14 year old boy killed an 8 year old, because he accidentally hurt her with a baseball, and he was scared of his fathers reaction, so he killed her with the bat, and stabbed her for good measure. and then plunked the poor girls body in the base of his water bed, where his mum found it a few days later. this was 19 years ago. And a girl who helped her boyfriend kill an old man for his car. they were the test case for new laws. but neither was granted the chance for release anytime in the future. After listening to the girls family talk, i understand why, but then adults get out after x amount of years for murder 2 and manslaughter. Is it fair to put a life long judgement on a 15 year old? but then how can you be 100 percent certain they wont go troppo again? The James Bulgar case is a prime example of what if.

I do believe some people are just born bad, but just as someone who ends up that way through an horrific childhood, its still a mental illness. how do you fix that and keep the public safe?

I admit I hope this killer expires in some way quickly, in my mind hes given up his right to life, and while hes alive he has the chance to cause further distress to the victims and their families. the waste of money housing him is secondary. And i konw that goes against what you believe David, and i fully respect that. I actually admire that you find good in everybody.

[think positive]

those bloody question marks might ip me over the edge!!!

[K]

[think positive]

[K]

Government urged to revisit consumer advice for suicide scenes

https://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/movies/government-urged-to-revisit-consumer-advice-for-suicide-scenes-20190319-p515ho.html

"... New Zealand's classification board updated its consumer advice for Oscar-winning film A Star Is Born. The government body added a suicide warning to the film, which stars Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga..."