Unit 1: Journalism

During this unit, we discussed about how in Journalism the right of privacy conflicts with the right of information. Through those discussions, we learned how to work with topic sentences, main and controlling ideas. The topic I chose to write about is tobacco and alcohol advertising on TV, my writing for that unit is below in this post:

Nowadays, when we are supposed to be in a culture that has already assimilated the presence of TV in our lives, we see that worldwide there are groups of people who try to turn TV into some kind of nanny and use it to forfeit their responsibilities as parents and keep their children into some kind of bubble, isolated from the real world.


While I think that some controls are necessary, I think that banning advertising campaigns of tobacco and alcohol on TV is downright moronic. How do those bans actually protect children if there are adults around them (most of times, their parents) who go smoking and drinking in front of them? And the worst part is that the same adults who should take their time and responsibilities to raise them and teach them about the vices reserved for adults, prefer wasting hours in action groups demanding TV networks and politicians to take decisions that relieve them from those responsibilities.


Tobacco and alcohol have been a human reality for centuries, pretending that they don't exist while children are growing is not the solution, allowing children to know about it and also telling them about the damage they cause is the actual solution, both on part of the parents and TV networks.

Well, that's all for this unit.

-Christian