But to be serious, it actually does matter what people think of a person when they consider age ratings. TV ratings are not decided by a computer or a set of "criteria;" they are set by a panel of adults, mostly parents. When people think of Pee-Wee's playhouse, they think of a show that is geared specifically for children and make their choice based on that. When the host of said show was involved in an embarrasing sex-like scandal it invariably will affect their ability to make an unbiased decision about the show. When they think of Jeffrey Jones they think of the types of movies he has made: mostly films that are NOT geared towards children, so I don't see how they compare, really.
Parental advisory stickers are not regulated by the government; they are a self regulation by the music industry and The Who's albums were released well before the concept of labelling albums with stickers (which didn't occur until the late 1980s/early 1990s) when the music industry was instead self-censoring. Nowadays albums are rarely stickered at all unless they are explicitly obscene (ie swearing and graphic descriptions lyrically of the obscene or grotesque). For example, Disturbed's first album got a sticker for all the swearing, but their latest album did not, even though there were all the same mature themes, because it had no actual swearing in it.
But to be serious, it actually does matter what people think of a person when they consider age ratings. TV ratings are not decided by a computer or a set of "criteria;" they are set by a panel of adults, mostly parents. When people think of Pee-Wee's playhouse, they think of a show that is geared specifically for children and make their choice based on that. When the host of said show was involved in an embarrasing sex-like scandal it invariably will affect their ability to make an unbiased decision about the show. When they think of Jeffrey Jones they think of the types of movies he has made: mostly films that are NOT geared towards children, so I don't see how they compare, really.
Parental advisory stickers are not regulated by the government; they are a self regulation by the music industry and The Who's albums were released well before the concept of labelling albums with stickers (which didn't occur until the late 1980s/early 1990s) when the music industry was instead self-censoring. Nowadays albums are rarely stickered at all unless they are explicitly obscene (ie swearing and graphic descriptions lyrically of the obscene or grotesque). For example, Disturbed's first album got a sticker for all the swearing, but their latest album did not, even though there were all the same mature themes, because it had no actual swearing in it.
Reply
Leave a comment