Saturday, November 3, 2012

Week of: Oct 29 - Nov 4 Discussion #2


Both Wooton and Liodice have different and compelling reasons on why they take such stance for children’s food advertising. Wooton believes that government regulation should be implemented into our children’s food advertising and that certain television channels should be watchful for what kind of food ads are being displayed in the channels that children watch. He believes that that the CSPI guidelines is the solution to end the childhood obesity that is going on in our society and that these criteria’s should be met if we want them to be healthy. On the contrary, Liodice strongly disagrees with the CSPI guidelines. He believes that it is violating the First Amendment and if the CSPI guidelines were to be implemented it would take away those rights. He believes that it shouldn't be the government’s duty to regulate what children see on television to help reduce childhood obesity. I believe Liodice had the most compelling argument because when it comes to violating the First Amendment I am for the person who defends that right. He gave strong evidence that if these guidelines were implemented, that would be a violation to our rights and if that happens who know what things the government might try to slip in. It shouldn't be their responsibility to regulate what children see, it should be their parents. The parents should be and are responsible for their health.

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  1. Hi HelloRWAR,
    I also agreed with Liodice in this argument. I also think he won this argument because it should not be ip the government to decide what shows children watch. The regulation of advertisement is not a good idea because if it’s not one thing it is another issue. If the government were to regulate the ads for food in children, will they also control the cartoons who advertise different kind of foods in their shows? I do not agree with this at all and this is why the Bill of Rights was created, to defend ourselves from ideas like these that government comes up with.

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