Do Media Rating Systems Need an Update?
SodaHead Living
2011/06/20 21:12:47
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Most people are pretty familiar with the movie rating system. G and PG movies are pretty clean-cut, while PG-13 and R-rated movies contain content that could be seen as harmful or inappropriate for children.
However, WebMD reports that surveys show parents would like these ratings, as well as the ratings for other types of media, such as television and video games, to be more consistent.
There is also growing concern over the reliability of ratings. Researchers have stated that ratings tend to be applied inconsistently within each medium, and that similarly rated content does not always line up.
However, WebMD reports that surveys show parents would like these ratings, as well as the ratings for other types of media, such as television and video games, to be more consistent.
A majority of parents surveyed felt there should be a universal rating system for all media, including web sites, music CDs, and games played on handheld devices.
There is also growing concern over the reliability of ratings. Researchers have stated that ratings tend to be applied inconsistently within each medium, and that similarly rated content does not always line up.
Read More: http://www.webmd.com/parenting/news/20110620/paren...
Top Opinion
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Vive le Canada Libre!!! 2011/06/20 21:43:37
If it had the rating system like in movies, then maybe the more insense stuff could be NC-17 and so on. But as it is, it's K-M, with very loose restrictions.
Do you know how sucky it is to see lame movies while ppl 17 and older get all the good ones?
I could just sneak in but i would never do tthat *cough cough*
Now if only books contained a general rating ideal. I can't tell you how many scenes were forced into my minds without any warning of it being some kind of quasi erotica type.
"So what?" I hear you say? Well, I'm an extremely visual person, people! Some things are just not welcomed in my reading. XD
But yes. Ratings to give a general idea (to whom it may concern) might be cool.
But some parents might take it a little too far.
Movies have that too. It's in smaller print, but it's there right with the rating.
Also, you could go to a library and access a computer and internet from there.
I think as much as there are people who are level headed and free thinking... there's also a counter part that literally relies upon the media for their info. So "ratings" and such are pretty much their "way of raising." Heck, I've been in Spanish harlem and PBS was pretty much the way of "raising yo kids.." That's it. Whatever the t.v. says... "We don't know.."
So it's about 50/50.
Same with video games. E would be for Everybody. M would be for Mature, which would be 13 and up.
Teenagers watch and play R/M rated games and movies. They understand the content and it's moral implications. They aren't going to go on killing sprees because they see it in a movie or video game. They do know better. The only ones who would do that are the ones that come from a troubled home.
PG = 9 years and up
PG13 = for 13 years old and up
NG17= for 17 years old and up
R = 18 and up
X = Adult only
I think the R/M games played by teenagers but not all of them really understand the implications of the games. Children younger than 12 should not be allowed to play R/M games.
I probably should've added NC-18, for the really messed up movies. The ones with disgusting levels of gore and sexual perversions/sodomy.
There is a really bad problem with the way the MPAA rates sex over violence. Movies like Saw and Hostel get the R-rating, which features a lot of gross levels of violence; while But I'm a Cheerleader and Lust Caution just have sexual scenes, and in the first examples. more implicit lesbian sexual implications.
You really are underestimating the youth of the world. They can handle a lot thanks to probably already seeing it or reading about it on the internet.
Plus, not to sound like a trouble maker or anything, but kids are usually just gonna find a way to watch/do what they want anyway. If they really want to watch an R rated movie, most kids will have a way of being able to do so...
I check the ratings on some movies that are pg in Canada, but the US it's rated R
also walk through a school yard with your ears open, is that rated R too?
and im usually the loudest kid
sometimes ill make up words :P