How safe are our kids from TV commercials?
Posted by: Roy in Reflections, TV, blog, outlet, public service, reactions, thought & opinions, tags: ads, advertisement, child, children, cigarette, commercial, condom, dillema, donut, health, ice cream, kids, milk, morale, safe, selfishness, television, TV, valuesWe see a mother giving her son a dozen donuts in a box, and told him to share it with his playmates. The boy then counted all his friends who are busy looking for a place to hide as they were playing hide-and-seek with the boy being the it. As they show his playmates one by one, hearing the boy’s voice on the background… coincidentally, there were twelve of them, including the boy!
Quickly he called all his playmates from hiding and announced that he has donuts to share. When they approached him, the camera showed all eleven donuts gone and just one remaining which was divided into 12 pieces. It seems the boy have consumed all eleven pieces and have left just one piece to share with his friends. Cute… or is it? I say it is an obvious display of greed and selfishness.
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