The Choice of Corporate America

The right of choice should not be exercised by children. The right of choice in the United States should be made by adults. The marketing of video games, television programming, and obscene music to children is an atrocity. To place the burden of responsibility on a working parent to filter inappropriate content in media, as a censor, is just to pass the buck. To say a child can just “change the channel.” To say just “Parents should actively set their television’s V-Chip. To suggest corporate America is immune to ethical and moral obligation is a misuse of the connotation of freedom in America. Parents cannot be the watchdog of corporate America for their children. Their major responsibility is “bringing home the bacon.” If they are asked to police a greed infected capitalist free market in addition to the responsibilities of rearing a child, then to whom is the buck passed? Corporate America is required to acknowledge and accept their responsibility in at least trying to educate and enlighten our youth rather than exploit them.