One of the most effective tools for making real change in the world seems to be something that people avoid by simply being too busy with their lives and not wanting to change a few things in their lives. That simple process is that great little thing called boycotting, which seems simple enough, yet it typically involves governing bodies rather than individuals. And somehow we still hear the cries of people bemoaning the injustices with television, movies, inferior products and general activities corrupted by the colleges that run the show. This is not to say that there aren’t some small groups that have (and do) boycotting certain events. When it comes to real action, however, individuals are increasingly waiting for someone else to do something… just from the time of the facts, with a long-term habit of not wanting to make a common population, at the same time announced a boycott or a product.
According to the major writers of history – a boycott announced by individual people at the same time may seem to be ineffective. This is not really true, and the elders from history are not really all that important except what is stated in the present state. One of the more recent cases in point was when then President Carter boycotted the Summer Olympics that were held in Moscow in 1980. This was due to the Soviets invading Afghanistan the previous December and Carter’s demands to withdraw. No one really expects a real boycott to happen at the same time as something untouched like the Olympics.
Well, in this scenario, President Carter showed some strong behavior that he didn’t show in other initiatives during his presidency. After last month’s decision by Moscow to withdraw from Afghanistan, Carter ordered America to boycott the Olympics that will take place in July. As much as you think Moscow is stunned, it is hardly going to sit an eye on America’s opinion. In fact, they seemed happy that the captain would have at least one chance at a medal Los Angeles< /a> ), but is generally known financially for the major TV network NBC. Long days before NBC ended its monopoly on broadcasting the Olympics in the 21st century, everyone was ready for these summer games with a . The public, in the Winter Olympics that February on ABC promotion of “Miracle on Ice”, was enough to tolerate them anyway in 1984.
This was probably the biggest boycott America has managed to pull off all the time. Perhaps it has set a precedent that boycotts do more harm than good. But it’s too bad that the stigma has only stuck around since the 1990s, when a lot of TV and movies started to change to more sex and violence on a near-PG diet. At least the dialogue from parents concerned about the process of using boycotts started around that time...
Confusion over sex boycotting and violence in the media… and some boycotts that actually worked…
I remember when some of the first primetime network TV shows began to focus on violence, profanity and sex around the early to mid 1990s. A lot of adults who grew up at an age when you didn’t see much of any of that on TV realized that they didn’t want their kids seeing that and began to contemplate, for the first time in the history of TV, suitable sponsors for several shows. It seemed to hit its peak around the late 90’s when old family hour network TV was starting to slowly disappear one show (and movie time slot) at a time. Of course, this was not because of any sense of a coordinated group coming together to move and agitate. At the time, I remember him being treated as a family journalist for Sunday publications like the USA Volutpat, where he cared about reporters who wrote their kids articles about him and instructed faithful readers how to make a difference.
By the time the internet started, boycotting had obviously become a much easier process to organize. Once there was an opportunity here from 2000 writers, but most of them are too used to the changing landscape of TV… or even busy by a time when the economy was going down the toilet. Parents were starting to work two jobs just to make ends meet – they were also trying to raise more families. With all the gimmicks, paying attention to what is shaping the brains of the new generation on TV is probably not as high a priority as it should be.
So the languor kills the potential boycott.
Well, let’s not get too many thoughts down here. There have been some successful boycotts in the internet age. None of them related to the sponsor boycotts of the show so sure that the sex in the first season was as deviant and violent as some people want to hear. But some of the most successful boycott groups have been against food and companies that continually put ingredients in their food that can potentially make you sick. You may have heard about the famous Nestlé boycott that started back in 1977 and has been repeated periodically over the last thirty years. This was one of the protests against Nestle’s marketing of breast milk substitutes that harm or can harm children in poor families disaster Although the boycott was announced at the same time it is still going on now, the powerful organizations behind it made Nestle look at changing their policies.
More recently, you have the recent boycott of Cheeton by parents who think the makers of the chips that turn your fingers orange is too strong for a campaign on TV. Maybe here you finally have the parents to act to remove things from the inappropriate waves. If Frito-Lay can do this, though, it’s still a mystery why they don’t do it for TV shows or movies. It should be tough to just not watch any TV show or movie (or not buy a product that is sponsored by TV show), right?
I guess the answer is this: When someone has kids who want to watch something (and you’re too tired from working all day) — the parent just takes the pressure off. It is less to say that it is not easy to raise a family today and keeping kids safe from all dangers can be nurtured.
Ironically, the new proposed American boycott of this summer’s Beijing Olympics could affect as little as any part of pop culture…
What will happen if President Bush boycotts the Summer Olympics this summer…
While we don’t expect President Bush to hear any suggestion made by Hillary Clinton, if pressure mounts to boycott the Beijing Summer Olympics, China this year because of human rights issues – ended up raising the same quern masters in 1980. If we boycott, we expect China to do exactly what Moscow did in the 1980s and not even the eyes of a bat. Then you expect the tensions with China to get even worse over the next four years only to lose goodwill when our athletes brush shoulders with them in London in 2012.
Certainly, this can make one of the most complicated Olympic plans. When it’s all about brotherhood and sisterhood in a meeting for the glory of the players, such a notion must be considered something wrong to be overcome. After all, America still celebrated the 1936 Berlin Olympics when we were full of Hitler’s nefarious plans emerging. There was then pressure from outside groups to boycott it, but Franklin Roosevelt wisely surrendered. Hillary Clinton is smart enough to learn from history far better than President Bush has.
A year from the time of this article we hope to attend Beijing and set an example to the kids of the generation that boycotting the Olympic field should not touch. If boycotting has to exist in the government – then let the American populace provide tips so that it is easier to resist against what is more harmful here in our borders.
