Homework from the 4th november

Censorship

Everywhere in the media you can find censorships in different forms and with different reasons. The purpose of censorships is easy to explain. They are made to protect the audience. A good example of censorships is the age-restricted for movies. This is a way to protect the younger audience for seeing content that might be not made for this age group. When you have a movie that shows a lot of violence, vulgarity, sexually explicit or physical afflicting content you will have an age television rating. This rating will order that you won’t be able to buy this movie, ore see this movie in the cinema if you are too young. But we all know that there are enough ways to see those movies if you are too young. You can ask older friend to buy you the film, you can see it online,… .

Also many parents allow their kids to watch movies that aren’t suggest to be seen by too young audience.

The censorships are made for a god reason. But it’s hard to control if the audience is in the border of the age ratings. In the official television program you have watershed times. That means that the television senders are allowed to sow stronger content after 21:00. You have different watershed times for different limits. The Content gets from limit to limit stronger.

You don’t just find censorships in movies. Also in the music business censorships are a big point. For many songs you have to versions. You have the real version and the `clean version of a song´. That means that is the content of a song is for example too rude you might find a `clean version´ od this song. All the songs that you hear in the official radio senders are censored, so they are the clean version of the song.

If the real version is `Body like the summer, fucking like no other…´ you will find ` Body like the summer, freaking like no other…´ in the censored version.

Another form of censorships that shows that censorships are made to protect the audience are the epileptic warnings in the television before flashing scenes.

As I already said it’s nearly impossible to control if the censorships in for of age ratings, warnings or watersheds get considered. But you have to understand that they aren’t made without a reason. They are made for us the audience and maybe some of us should pay a bit more attention to this censorships. There are no reasons why a little kid has to see a scary horror movie. The kid will get nightmares and that’s not the purpose of those horror movies. They are not censored but the age rating already shoes you that this movie is not made for your kid. Also you can’t control if kids turning the television of after 21:00.

All in all the censorships are to show made to protect us the audience and they show you for which age group a products was made for.