{"id":507091,"date":"2010-04-02T15:14:29","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T19:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f21\/ptc-news-american-tv-undermines-kids-worldwide-41770\/"},"modified":"2010-04-02T15:14:29","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T19:14:29","slug":"ptc-in-the-news-american-tv-undermines-kids-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/507091","title":{"rendered":"PTC in the News: American TV Undermines Kids Worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div align=\"left\"><font face=\"Arial Rounded MT Bold\"><font size=\"4\"><font color=\"#768b3f\">PTC in the News: American TV Undermines Kids Worldwide <\/font><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\"><font face=\"Arial\"><font size=\"2\">American TV programs like the CW network&#8217;s <i>Gossip Girl<\/i> and <i>90210<\/i>, Fox&#8217;s <i>Glee<\/i>, and cable shows like ABC Family&#8217;s <i>The Secret Life of the American Teenager<\/i> portray sex between teenagers as normal and even positive. But TV&#8217;s portrayal undermines truly healthy relationships among teens; and because American TV is distributed worldwide, its view of sex affects teens all around the globe. As this story from the <i>Malaysia Star<\/i> demonstrates, parents and teens in other countries are becoming increasingly concerned about the messages promoted by American media. <\/font><\/font><font face=\"Arial\"><font size=\"2\"><font color=\"#000000\"><b><font face=\"Arial\"><font size=\"2\"><font color=\"#014e9c\">&#9658;<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/b> <b><a href=\"http:\/\/thestar.com.my\/education\/story.asp?file=\/2010\/3\/21\/education\/5863298&amp;sec=education\" ><font face=\"Arial\"><font size=\"2\"><font color=\"#014e9c\">more<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/a><\/b><\/font><\/font><\/font>\n <\/div>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.parentstv.org\/\" ><font face=\"Arial\"><font size=\"3\"><font color=\"#768b3f\"><b>Parents Television Council<\/b><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/a><font face=\"Arial\"><font size=\"3\"><font color=\"#768b3f\"><b> &#8211; 707 Wilshire Blvd Ste 2075 &#8211; Los Angeles, CA 90017<br \/>\nPhone: (213) 403-1300 &#8211; Fax: (213) 403-1301<\/b><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PTC in the News: American TV Undermines Kids Worldwide American TV programs like the CW network&#8217;s Gossip Girl and 90210, Fox&#8217;s Glee, and cable shows like ABC Family&#8217;s The Secret Life of the American Teenager portray sex between teenagers as normal and even positive. But TV&#8217;s portrayal undermines truly healthy relationships among teens; and because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4296,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-507091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4296"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}