Ill thought-out plans are still being made two months too late, and Boris - as if he hasn't got enough to get on with - has announced his intention to protect children against obesity by banning TV adverts for junk food before the watershed of 9.00pm. There is no watershed of 9.00pm anymore. Nobody rushes to the TV to catch a program the second it is released as they did in the days before catch-up.
For the first time in ages, we tuned-in to ITV last night to watch a documentary on the unspeakably horrible German man who is the prime suspect for the murder of Madeleine McCann in Portugal, just because it was made by the daughter of a friend of H.I.'s.
It reminded me of why we tend to stick to the BBC for everything on the box - I cannot stand the adverts, and they seem to last a lot longer than they did a few years ago. I noticed that there was an option to watch the content without adverts if you payed for it. No thanks.
Has anyone ever watched 'Russia Today'?
We have mandatory masks in public places here now, too. That thing about junk food advertisements is kind of ridiculous. Children don't buy their own groceries. Adults make the food choices for children, up to a certain age. Hope you have a good day. -Jenn
ReplyDeleteWell, there are a lot of unhealthy snack placed at child eye-level in supermarkets to create unwanted pressure on parents when they are trying to pay the bills, but I don't know.
DeleteChildren may not buy food but they see things and want. Even if it doesn't do any good on the surface it is a step in the right direction. What we really need is respect for cooking, education, and elders and forget all this tech rubbish and get outside and play and come home and have an egg and cress sandwich for tea and bedtime.
ReplyDeleteAt my school, boys did woodwork and metalwork when girls did 'domestic science'. One boy decided to learn how to cook and weathered the ridicule from his peers. I think cooking should be on the curriculum for both sexes. The tech games are a monstrous way of global companies gleaning all sorts of data - and money - from kids and adolescents who are expected to pay to go to a gym rather than exercise by playing outside like we did. I'm with you.
DeleteWell occasionally when I am bored I do watch RT but it has not warped my mind yet, or has it? As for obesity (I'm putting on weight sadly) in children, something that is pulled out of the hat every now and then, normally accompanied by Jamie Oliver, but it is more often down to poor social conditions and fast food. I would rather see Johnson actually cooking a decent cheap meal.
ReplyDeleteRussia Today was much admired by Jeremy Corbyn for 'giving an alternative outlook on the news'. Thankfully he has all but disappeared, but will probably have to reappear to face charges of institutional anti-Semitism again. That's going to be a boring waste of time.
DeleteITV? Hardly ever watch it because the adverts drive me crazy.
ReplyDeleteMe too Weave.
DeleteWe occasionally record programmes on commercial stations but zip through the relentless ads. Out of the corner of your eye, you still get a flavour of the absurd stuff that gets advertised but I did notice distinctly Covid-pitched ads for things like household bleach and funeral homes washing over the airwaves this last little while!
ReplyDeleteI keep getting adverts for funeral plans through the post. They know how old I am and they know where I live. I hate the bastards who sold them that information. Probably my insurance companies.
DeleteAnd I no longer have TV at all. I only watch what Netflix has to offer. Occasionally.
ReplyDeleteWe - occasionally - watch TV on the computer, but we don't have a dedicated set.
DeleteI blame the women's lib movement of all those decades ago, so keen to get women out of the kitchen to have more fun that they abandoned their families to the big junk food manufacturing giants. People don't want to eat healthy food because it costs time and money that could both be spent on having more fun and making other huge manufacturing giants rich as well.
ReplyDeleteWill people continue with a simpler life more like the one imposed on them by lockdown, carry on cooking and gardening? I doubt it. Clobbering the ads will make no difference, they will simply evolve to suit their needs.
The general breakdown of families has a lot to do with it. That didn't happen in places like Italy.
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