Beer Ads and Baseball ...A Double Standard?

[casper]

The baseball play-off games are currently being televised and Budweiser is a major sponsor.

How come alcoholic beverages are promoted through televised commercials for sports events but can't be advertised for other non-sports shows? Also, lots of kids are watching baseball games and see the ads that glamorize drinking. Cigarette ads were removed from the airwaves eons ago but alcohol can be advertised during afternoon hours and during primetime televison hours during a ballgame. Or, alcoholic ads reach a grandiose peak during the televised SuperBowl. I see where there is a push at the stadiums to get kids not to smoke but nothing is ever said about the dangers of alcohol. The reason is crystal clear because the beer advertisers would no longer sponsor. Look how many people are killed in alcohol-related accidents!

Hypocritical is my opinion.

[mom2burgess]

I tend to agree with you. I also don't understand why alcohol doesn't have a warning label speaking of it's hazards on your body if you use in excess or that it can be addictive

[Opus]

I thought all alcohol containers do contain warnings

Sporting events are mostly watched by men and as such advertisers place ads mostly geared to men, like alcohol and cars

on womens shows the ads are completely different (womens products)

[kingclick]

I see no problem with Alcohol being advertised during sporting events.

[mom2burgess]

actually they just contain warnings such as "do not drink and drive or operate heavy machinery"

[Jory]

I don't see a problem with advertising alcohol during pro-sports events either. So what if children are watching? It is the parents job to teach them about responsible behavior in regard to drinking alcoholic beverages, and everything in this whole freaking wide world does not have to be disney-tized "for the children". Children should know that they are not equal to adults in what they can and cannot do. No wonder children do not know boundaries these days.

[Opus]

I don't see a problem with advertising alcohol during pro-sports events either. So what if children are watching? It is the parents job to teach them about responsible behavior in regard to drinking alcoholic beverages, and everything in this whole freaking wide world does not have to be disney-tized "for the children". Children should know that they are not equal to adults in what they can and cannot do. No wonder children do not know boundaries these days.


I totally agree, it's past time people stopped expecting the TV and/or the government to be their babysitters

Whenever topics come up that might be touchy when my kids are watching tv, we talk about them, and thats it....

Even the great wardrobe disaster of the the superbowl we talked about and laughed over, and none of us were offended

and none of us want or desire networks getting fined for stuff placed on their channels, if I dont like something, I turn the channel, thats what my remote is for