Keep Them Innocent
You all know how much I love games and contests, so when I read about this one, I got all atwitter!
The Parents Television Council, the silly ones that make 99% of the complaints to the FCC, came up with this fun contest where they pick three kids to be like poster children to talk about how bad violence, sex and profanity on TV is.
The campaign will spotlight the powerful theme, "Keep Them Innocent" referring to all children harmed by sex, violence and profanity in entertainment. To achieve the goals of this campaign we are seeking three children to become our national PTC Kidz ambassadors.
Each PTC Kid will represent one of the PTC core entertainment concerns: graphic sex, violence and profanity. PTC Kidz will be used in a number of ways, including public service announcements (PSAs), advertisements, brochures, bumper stickers and on the web site. A national search for real children to serve as the PTC Kidz is now underway.
PTC Kidz should represent the diversity of the PTC membership, both in ethnicity, geographic region and age. One child from each of these three age groups is sought: 5-7, 8-11, 12-17 years. Children should be able to read and be able to describe their own concerns or experiences regarding sex, violence and profanity in entertainment content. Perhaps a small child has experienced nightmares after seeing particularly violent movies or films. Maybe a pre-teen girl is concerned about unreasonable expectations being forced on her and her friends as a result of gratuitous sexual content. And perhaps a young teen is concerned about the increase of profanity by his friends or other school mates resulting from frequent exposure to profanity in films or television.
And, as Jerry points out,
Yes, there is going to be the "Violence Child," the "Profanity Child," and my favorite, the "Gratuitous Sex Child," or when they decide, perhaps the "Graphic Sex Child." Who will be "used in a number of ways."
I can't decide which one I want to be. They all sound like so much fun!
The Parents Television Council, the silly ones that make 99% of the complaints to the FCC, came up with this fun contest where they pick three kids to be like poster children to talk about how bad violence, sex and profanity on TV is.
The campaign will spotlight the powerful theme, "Keep Them Innocent" referring to all children harmed by sex, violence and profanity in entertainment. To achieve the goals of this campaign we are seeking three children to become our national PTC Kidz ambassadors.
Each PTC Kid will represent one of the PTC core entertainment concerns: graphic sex, violence and profanity. PTC Kidz will be used in a number of ways, including public service announcements (PSAs), advertisements, brochures, bumper stickers and on the web site. A national search for real children to serve as the PTC Kidz is now underway.
PTC Kidz should represent the diversity of the PTC membership, both in ethnicity, geographic region and age. One child from each of these three age groups is sought: 5-7, 8-11, 12-17 years. Children should be able to read and be able to describe their own concerns or experiences regarding sex, violence and profanity in entertainment content. Perhaps a small child has experienced nightmares after seeing particularly violent movies or films. Maybe a pre-teen girl is concerned about unreasonable expectations being forced on her and her friends as a result of gratuitous sexual content. And perhaps a young teen is concerned about the increase of profanity by his friends or other school mates resulting from frequent exposure to profanity in films or television.
And, as Jerry points out,
Yes, there is going to be the "Violence Child," the "Profanity Child," and my favorite, the "Gratuitous Sex Child," or when they decide, perhaps the "Graphic Sex Child." Who will be "used in a number of ways."
I can't decide which one I want to be. They all sound like so much fun!
posted by cookie christine @ 2/24/2005
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