{"id":48,"date":"2007-07-05T12:42:29","date_gmt":"2007-07-05T17:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/?p=48"},"modified":"2007-07-16T09:44:44","modified_gmt":"2007-07-16T14:44:44","slug":"48","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2007\/07\/05\/48\/","title":{"rendered":"TV BS"},"content":{"rendered":"

How do you spell hypocrisy? F-O-X (alternate spelling: C-B-S).<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is a real head-scratcher. The same TV networks that have no problem running shows chock full of gratuitous sex and violence draw the line at running condom ads. What’s up with that?<\/p>\n

Here’s a recent message from Cecile Richards, President of Planned Parenthood Federation of America (Planned Parenthood Health Systems of SC is a Network member group):<\/p>\n

Here’s a pretty telling story from the world of media. There is a new condom commercial on the airwaves that starts with a bunch of women in a bar surrounded by some men who happen to look like pigs. One of these men then shuffles to the men’s room, grabs a condom from a vending machine, and all of a sudden is turned into a regular guy. But the message at the end is what I like: “Use a condom every time.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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As the nation’s leading reproductive health care advocate and provider, we’re happy to see advertisements that promote protection, but the catch, of course, is that two networks – FOX and CBS – rejected the ad. FOX explained its rejection of the ad by saying, “Contraceptive advertising must stress health-related uses rather than the prevention of pregnancy.”<\/p>\n

Pretty shocking stuff, considering that we all know condoms do both – and since when is pregnancy not health-related? And in the double standard department, network programs (and Viagra commercials) are full of sexualized content, so why should an ad about protecting yourself from pregnancy and STIs be any different? Join more than 25,000 Planned Parenthood supporters who have made their voices heard by telling CBS and FOX to stop the hypocrisy and air ads that promote public health!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How do you spell hypocrisy? F-O-X (alternate spelling: C-B-S). This is a real head-scratcher. The same TV networks that have no problem running shows chock full of gratuitous sex and violence draw the line at running condom ads. What’s up … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}