DISNEY CHANNEL, NICKELODEON CORRUPT CHILDREN

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Now that Lindsay Lohan’s new low-budget ($200,000) piece of erotica, The Canyons, has been released, and Miley Cyrus has posed for Notion Magazine in her underwear, it might be useful to look at how the Disney Channel and fellow corrupter of youth Nickelodeon are leading tweeners toward behavior that can only be referred to as noxious.

The LA Weekly had a comprehensive piece on June 20 delineating the kind of behavior exhibited on Disney Channel shows such as Shake It Up, Jesse, Wizards of Waverly Place and Austin & Ally, and Teen Nick's Victorious and How to Rock. Writer Nick Schager said the shows:

promote an adult-free universe in which wise-cracking tartlets mug for the camera in too-revealing mall-wear while prevailing over social obstacles through a combination of you-go-girl obnoxiousness and slapstick idiocy . . . Far more distressing are the unpleasant lessons they teach about humility, civility, individuality and what it really means to be an adolescent girl . . . In each of these programs, everyone is endlessly ridiculing everyone else in order to showcase their own playful impudence, thereby equating coolness with smart-assery.

Schager also took the networks to task for the absence of parental models on the shows:

. . . grown-ups are either altogether missing in these shows or, in the case of Wizards of Waverly Place and Good Luck Charlie (and the superior, now-canceled, (Carly) , infantile sidekicks with no legitimate influence on their mischievous charges. When adults are around, they're depicted as buffoons, and their threats of punishment are toothless, mere narrative devices designed to provide drama while also underscoring the kids' awesome and lionized do-what-I-wanna-do behavior . . . the general absence of mother and father figures -- the kids live more or less on their own, in lavish houses or apartments, without having jobs or any notable sources of income -- conveys the idea that, with a lot of self-satisfied smirking and pratfalling ingenuity, teens can accomplish everything and anything they want, by themselves, because they always know best.

As for sexual provocation? Schager wrote that shows such as Victorious, A.N.T. Farm and Shake It Up show young girls “uniformly cast from the same Bratz-doll mold. They're singing and dancing robots designed to exude youthful, tacky sexuality that's safe and "subtle" (first kisses are the extent of the stories' huffing and puffing) yet absolutely omnipresent. Following the lead of contemporary tween-oriented pop music -- a link made depressingly plain, and unholy, by an episode of Victorious featuring Ke$ha -- the shows' eroticized elements are intrinsically linked with coolness.”

Disney Channel and Nickelodeon: paving the way for the corruption of the innocent.

[Tubehead]

no offesn if I had kids I wouldn't let them watch spoun bob I think its gross cartoon I just don't under stand why its so popular pluse the voice of spun bob annoys me and the theme song annoys me too

[Patty Duke]

My brother doesn't allow his children to watch all that crap. I don't have any children because for me personally I feel morals etc. have declined so much, I don't want to bring children into this world.

[zypherix]

Kids will watch what they want to watch. Stop being such babies.. they'll learn about the world eventually anyway.

[Patty Duke]

Originally Posted by zypherix

Kids will watch what they want to watch.

Not if the parents take an active role in their upbringing and care.
That is the major problem today, some parents allow kids to do as they please and these kids are out of control!

[MrCleveland]

I just wish Disney Channel and Nickelodeon goes back to their roots.

Well...Nickelodeon is STILL the 1st Kids Network, but it had more variety back in the 90's, and The Disney Channel was...well...NOT The "Disney" Channel.

[retrofan05]

I think Girl Meets World has the potential to really turn Disney around. Boy Meets World was the perfect family show. It had good morals, wit, and life lessons that everyone could relate to. If Girl Meets World sticks to the same formula, it could act as a banner show for a major turnaround in the network.

[MacLeaper]

I think there may be some over exaggeration and generalizations in some of these articles, but I do agree on a lot of these points. There have been some moments watching the attitudes of some of these kids on these various Disney and Nick shows (most all of which I've seen at least one episode) and at times, I get incensed and want to give some kids some spankings. If I ever said some of the things I've heard on these shows to my parents as a kid, I'd be getting a spanking big time.
Maybe not all the time, but there are so many times when kids on these shows are rude, disrespectful, lying and disobedient- amongst other things. And the parents are generally (not always) portrayed as either buffoons or in some cases, just as bad as their kids. No wonder the kids do such wrong- they see it in their parents! And their parents even encourage them in it at times.
I'm not saying all Disney and Nickelodeon shows are bad- but certainly, parents need to be careful and watch them with their kids- and determine which ones to let their minds dwell on (as Philippians 4:8 guidelines). Of course, the sadder thing is- these are probably some of the best shows on TV because there are certainly much worse things to watch......

[Patty Duke]

In my opinion Disney promotes bullying! My little niece has some serious food allergies, one of which is Celiac Disease. They aired a show where some kids at a dinner table were poking fun at one child because he couldn't eat wheat and even threw food at him. No excuse in that! No, I didn't watch that show but word travels with kids and my niece was teased at school after this. She was sent home after a boy poured milk over her head, (she can't have dairy or nuts either). No, it didn't make her sick, she has to drink it for it to effect her but her hair and clothes were wet and surprise, the boy who did this got a little talking to, nothing more. The other kids who egged it on walked away free and clear. He laughed about it in front of the Principal and HIS parents who did NOTHING! This is not the 1st time that boy has bullied other kids. Nothing is ever done. So many kids are out of control, many parents no longer parent and the shows on TV don't help matters. Bullying is something I think we need to stop tolerating or it will not stop. If the parents can't control the kids, then someone else needs to step in OR the parents need to be punished for what their out of control kids do till they understand their role!

https://www.google.com/search?q=Celi...-US%3Aofficial

[Wawwie]

Originally Posted by Tubehead

no offesn if I had kids I wouldn't let them watch spoun bob I think its gross cartoon I just don't under stand why its so popular pluse the voice of spun bob annoys me and the theme song annoys me too

It's called Sponge Bob, not spun bob.

[Patty Duke]

Originally Posted by Wawwie

It's called Sponge Bob, not spun bob.

We should try to avoid insulting other people, they do have feelings and we never know the circumstances.

[Zoneboy]

Originally Posted by Patty Duke

We should try to avoid insulting other people, they do have feelings and we never know the circumstances.

The poster might not be aware that correcting other people's grammar is not allowed.

[Patty Duke]

Thank you.

[DJM77]

A little OT, but it seems to me that some of the dialogue and humor is inappropropriate (especially since we're talking about kids shows) sometimes. For example, I realize that I'm in the minority with this, but I've always felt like saying stuff like "Oh God" or "Oh my God" (if you're not talking to or about God, but you say His name then you're using it in vain) is worse than saying curse words. I've noticed that despite being kids shows, the Dan Schneider produced shows like to use God's name in vain from time to time.

[waichingliu81]

Originally Posted by MrCleveland

I just wish Disney Channel and Nickelodeon goes back to their roots.

Well...Nickelodeon is STILL the 1st Kids Network, but it had more variety back in the 90's, and The Disney Channel was...well...NOT The "Disney" Channel.

i'd say the same for cartoon network and to an extent, boomerang as well. though i enjoy boomerang more than CN, but not as much as i did during the 00s period.