Blog No. 2!

Okay, so after watching this video, I was a little offended. I just want to say that children are not just these brainless zombies that go around doing and taking WHATEVER they're given. It's not fair that no matter what WE the CHILDREN say, no one listens to us, but they still say we're so "impressionable" and "taken advantage of". What I don't like is that as "children", no one really cares what we have to think because society has been trained to think teenagers/kids can't form true and honest opinions on their own that make sense. While this is true for many of the kids I see, it's really frustrating to have this sweeping generalization of kids. They talk in the video about how from the time we're born we're being advertised to, and that we need to be protected. The thing is, this has been happening since the beginning of "mass media". Yes, it has grown, but it has grown as our nation grows. Of course it's going to get stronger and of course it's going to become more targeted. When you first start playing a sport it takes some time to become a better player: You have to learn the technique, the rules, the strategies. One can apply that to this situation, and as the viewers, we have to get better at learning to be the defense, as media has taken the role of the offense.