Thursday, January 29, 2009
Bottom story of the day
"Study: Violence, sex permeates NFL ads".
Common Sense Media, which provides ratings and reviews of TV shows, movies and video games to parents, released the results Thursday. CSM said its staff watched 50 NFL games this season and logged more than 5,000 commercials.
Among its findings:
- 40 percent of games showed ads for erectile dysfunction drugs.
- 46.5 percent of the sexual or violent advertisements were promotions by the broadcast networks for their own programs.
- Almost 500 of the ads showed an increased form of violence, including murders, explosions and gunfights.
Scholarship can be so grueling sometimes.
The first two bullets make sense to me. The third only rings true if it includes ads for video games, which ought not really count as "murders, explosions and gunfights" because they are, well, totally unrealistic animation.
2 Comments:
By 
RPD, at
Fri Jan 30, 10:50:00 AM:
I'd wager that most of the murders, explosions, and gunfights occur in ads for network shows, or for movies.
By Arthur, at
Fri Jan 30, 12:51:00 PM:
So violent ads displayed during a game in which large men smash into each other is a problem?
Who knew?
