So yea, I'm a couple months late on this article "Hurricane Hannah," but she's still probably the biggest start in the states right now, and I am so fascinated why kids like her. Plus, I just found out Miley Cyrus is the daughter of the achey breaky heart, Billy Ray!!!
TIME makes a pretty legit argument for why parents are getting conned in to paying several hundred bucks for a kids concert, but it still does not excuse the fact that children over 8 years old are still watching Disney Channel. And it does not fit with the bullshit academic theory of KGOY (Kids Get Older Younger--thats right, they had to make this inane term an acronym), which sounds like some kind of off-shoot of NAMBLA.
With relation to media intelligence, kids are really getting older later. The advent of satellite TV in so many households and its access to such a variety of content, children now can continue watching children's programming 24 hours a day and not just from 6-8am. (Damn, I miss the line-up of Mr Wizard, TMNT, Inspector Gadget, and He-Man). Today, pre-teens have no concept of prime-time television content. No, they don't watch nightly newscasts, foodtv, or even the Office or 30 Rock; they watch High School Musical repeats. This is pathetic, and parents should be to blame, not commended.
What's even worse is that all kids want these days (and this is through an informal survey of the kids I work with on a daily basis) is an IPhone (even though they don't really know what it can do) and to listen to Soulja Boy (which besides its trite and mundane music and lyrics, was a hit four months ago). This is what Disney and children's programming is selling children, and while I think this is genius on the behalf of a falling empire, parents are treading down a slippery slope of mindless, education-less consumerism.
simply pathetic.
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