Tv Rating System: Good Or Bad For Today's Society?

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In today’s society, many children contain a television in their bedrooms. The only
problem is do parents really know or have the time to spend monitoring what their
children watch? With jobs and taking care of the family they don’t have the time nor the
patience. A new solution was manifested, a rating system that will appear on the screen
of the show that your child is watching. The problem is whether the new rating system is
a solution or just another dilemma. There are many glitches to this system. Such
pressures faced when creating the system are the needs for a rating system, certain
general negative points, and the actual detailed rating system itself. Children’s parents
and guardians need to know about problems that they will not hear from the media or
marketing personnel who created it.
When the system was created last summer, the broadcasters aceted to pressure
from a coalition of advocacy groups and a nudge from the white house. According to
chart 1, 40.7% of all children have a television in their bedroom. With this expanding
number of broadcast and cable channels and the expanding number of television sets in
the home, kids can now watch violent adult dramas and sex-tinged situation comedies
almost any time of the day. This is one of the key reasons why broadcasters acceded to
the pressure from the coalition groups. Another pressure was what are the broadcasters
going to use for representation. Initially, an age based system was devised that mimicked
the ratings used for movies. But this system was criticized as being inadequate from
coalition groups. They argued that parents need more specific information about the
contents of programs specifically violence, sex, and language. From these pressures
faced, broadcasters did have the time to create a formal system.
As of today their are many negative points to this system. The system is said to be
inherently subjective and necessarily incomplete....