Blog entry 2: Those were the days...

What happened to the days of good old innocent children’s TV viewing? …

Back in the day children would look forward to watching half an hour of a cartoon once a week, on a Saturday afternoon. The rest of the week the children were outside playing in the sun on their bikes. All time favourites among South African children included Tom and Jerry, Popeye, Roadrunner and Tin Tin. In the early days, children watched innocent, fun and often educational cartoons with very basic graphics and animations, and they loved them!

As time went on the graphics and animations become better, the TV’s improved and the cartoons started to change too. Gone are the days where children have a specific cartoon to look forward to as they are spoilt for choice with all the different channels and cartoons to choose from. Not only did the amount of options change but so too did the content and messages behind the cartoons. Personally speaking I am appalled at the absolute garbage Cartoon Network chooses to broadcast to children, whose brains are like sponges and absorb anything they see or hear.

After sitting and watching some of the cartoons broadcast to children on DSTV these days I am afraid to say that there is little left of the innocent, educational and fun cartoons that used to watch. Falling weights, spitting, fighting, hitting and disrespect are all a part of the viewing choices of today’s youth. No wonder children are getting more and more aggressive as time goes by.

…That’s what happened to good old innocent children’s TV viewing!

What was your favourite cartoon when you where growing up?

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