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Posted by Jay G. on 04/15/07 05:17
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 19:51:20 +0200 (CEST), George Orwell wrote:
> NY Times
> "Report Says the Young Buy Violent Games and Movies"
> http://snipurl.com/shocked_shocked
"The commission also found that film companies routinely advertised R-rated
fare on sites like that of the Cartoon Network, where it said under-17
visitors made up 54 percent of the total during a monitored period ending
last August."
I wonder if the commission bothered to check if the ads were running on the
ADULT SWIM website, which is a site about the adult-rated fair that airs
late-night on Cartoon Network, instead of just on a Cartoon Network website
in general. It sounds suspiciously like they might be lumping in the Adult
Swim site so that they get the shock value of "R-rated movies advertised on
a cartoon site for kiddies!"
The article also fails to not that for every category they had numbers for
in 2003, except for theater tickets the percentage of sales to minors has
*dropped*.
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2007/04/marketingviolence.shtm
So *less* movies, music, and video games are being sold to minors in
stores.
> What do they expect when the industry has entire video categories
> devoted to this stuff? SHOOTER, FIGHTING, etc. etc.
> http://snipurl.com/shooters
I don't know about the government, but I'm guessing the industry is
releasing mature rated games because 83% of people who buy video games and
69% of people who play video games are over the age of 18:
http://www.theesa.com/facts/gamer_data.php
-Jay
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