Profanity...tisk, tisk

Personally, I don't really see what the big deal is about profanity on TV. And, as many of us addressed in class today, if parents have such a problem with it, they should take more of an active role in their child's television watching. Like Robert said, all TVs come equiped with V-chips, it is just a matter of the parants making the effort to enact it or just simply turn the TV off if their child is watching something inappropraite. Honestly, it comes down to the parents needing to do the parenting and taking care of the matter in the home, realizing what their children are watching, and stop letting the TV babysit their child.

Bonnie did a really good job with her presentation today. Clever way to start the presentation and allow a TV show introduce your topic so appropriatley. She used alot of logos in her presentation. She showed various statistics on the numbers pertaining to profanity on TV during "family time." I was surprised that the numbers were so high. I guess not having kids keeps me from really thinking about what is or isn't appropriate during "family time" on TV. The TV clips that she showed were a good addition. It helped to hear, when actually focused on the topic, how much "profanity" there is on TV. It is funny though, I never really thought of hell and damn as a profanity, and that is most of what you hear (with the occasional other words in here and there).

Bonnie also showed the pathos of the issue, because there are ALOT of parents who are genuinely very upset over the profanity on TV. She showed their ethos and also what they were wanting to do about the problem. These parents put alot of their effort into this issue, and as was said in class, their time might be better spent on something less trivial that could most definatly be handled differently. Overall, good presentation filled with lots of information, which was all pretty new to me.