Apparently, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's "Planet Slayer" site invites young children to take a "greenhouse gas quiz", asking them "how big a pig are you?". At the end of the quiz, the pig explodes, and ABC tells children at "what age you should die at so you don’t use more than your fair share of Earth’s resources!" Charming!
In response, ABC managing director Mark Scott insisted that,
... the site was not designed to offend certain quarters of the community but to engage children in environmental issues.My question is how this squares with the Child Protection policy of ABC. Could we have access to a copy of this policy?
5 comments:
Outrageous. They're going to get away with it, I suppose.
Yeah, but some people just can't take a joke!
Unfortunately, Fr. Finigan, the ABC Policy seems to think it's their job to inform children of subject matter that is "real."
2.12 Content for Children. In providing enjoyable and enriching content for children, the ABC does not wish to conceal the real world from them. It can be important for the media, especially television, to help children understand and deal with situations which may include violence and danger. Special care should be taken to ensure that content which children are likely to watch or access unsupervised should not be harmful or disturbing to them.
ABC Code of Practice March 2007
I do think someone could take issue with them on the "disturbing" portion. For pete's sake...watching a pig explode with the implication that they should suffer a similar fate if they don't take "global warming" seriously is pretty disturbing, in my opinion.
I think that's funny. Is that wrong?
NO LAFFIN! they oughta also ban Tom n Jerry Cartoons.
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