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Music Video Damage

Posted: January 16th, 2009 | Author: elena | Filed under: body, children, exploitation, health, hidden propaganda, media, music videos, new markets, self-image, television | Tags: | 1 Comment »

via Women’s Forum Australia

American researchers are convinced the weekend bombardment of music videos containing images of skinny, semi naked models in sexual poses is damaging teenagers.

Once, music clips were a pure form of entertainment.

Now it seems it’s almost impossible to find a family-friendly clip.

…Acting Prime Minister Julia Gillard, says …”It always concerns me when the images of very young people or children are sexualised. I think a childhood should be a childhood that should be replicated in our media and in the way in which we live. We should let boys and girls grow up with all the special innocence that childhood has,” says Gillard.


Annals of Deception: Image Retouching in Music Videos

Posted: January 13th, 2009 | Author: elena | Filed under: airbrushing, censorship, corporate hypocrisy, hidden propaganda, image manipulation, media, music videos, television | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

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