CHIJ girls please stand up

From ‘Poster with CHIJ logo ‘insulting’: school chairperson’, 18 Jan 2012, article by Jeanette Tan, sg.yahoo news. A poster featuring a naughty message has scandalised some people from the Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus (CHIJ) schools in Singapore. The large circular poster, which depicted the school’s crest at its centre, included a caption in [...]

F-word allowed in PG13 films

From ‘New PG13 rating introduced’, 15 July 2011, article in asiaone.com The Media Development Authority (MDA) today introduced a new classification rating, PG13, for shows on TV, movies, or on DVD. Ms Grace Fu, Senior Minister of State for Information, Communications and the Arts, announced this at an event at the National Library on Friday [...]

This time with pornography

From ‘Too much sex in this city for kids’, 24 Jan 2011, Voices, Today (Tan Boon Kwang): RECENTLY, adult shops and suggestive trailers on television have mushroomed. …What is alarming are the visually explicit displays/graphics adult shops openly use to attract customers. Nude and semi nude prints of men and women in suggestive poses are [...]

Grisly Toons

From Misleading – those TV programmes for children 23 August 1977 Letters to ST Tom and Jerry, Tweety and Sylvester, Daffy Duck…Scooby Doo and the Road Runner series. What do they have in common? – The primary objective of amusing and entertaining, but through painful slapstuck and churlish violence. You (Barbera, Hanna) are leading young [...]

Cartoon villians escaping all the time

From Too much violence in new cartoons 6 Jan 1987 ST Forum I fear that the children who watch these cartoons regularly may be adversely influences and led to think that it is right to use force to subdue wrong-do-ers. In Mask, for example, Venom always escapes from the grasp of the law when the [...]

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