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Thursday, May 26, 2005
Editorial: Violence involving children
THE creators and think-tank behind television shows should be careful when letting their child talents portray certain scenes that are actually violent.
Let us cite for example a scene in a children's gag show on a major broadcast network aired last Sunday. The child star, dressed like a "jungle child", awakes and almost at the same time, an adult donning an ape costume also wakes up.
Whatever the "jungle child" does, the "ape" would mimic. It was amusing. But to our horror, the scene turns violent when the "jungle child", out of exasperation and irritation, gets a gun and shoots down the "ape". The "jungle child" approaches the "ape" and when the child actor was near enough, the "ape" shoots back at the "jungle child".
To think that it was a children's comedy show. How could that scene pass the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB) as the agency was supposed to review shows before they are aired?
What did that scene teach minors who were expectedly watching the show? That it was okay to kill an animal or even a person who mimics? We are sure that many parents were shocked it. Children are easily influenced and television is such a powerful medium that it can teach children the wrong things, the wrong notions about life and the wrong values.
(May 26, 2005 issue)
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