A Move to Curb Digitally Altered Photos in Ads

Due to women looking nearly perfect in magazines, most women are feeling the need that they should look just as perfect.
In the article, A move to Curb Digitally Altered Photos in Ads, Mr. Hudson states, "I have never yet seen, and you probably never will see, a fashion or beauty picture that hasn't been retouched." Most women though don't think this way. There is nothing on the ad or picture stating that it has been touched up.
Lawmakers in Britain and France are trying to change this. Under the proposal advertisements would be rated. For example a four would be given to a photo where someone had plastic surgery whereas a one would be given to a photo where they would have changed something as little as the lighting.
"These photos can lead people to believe in realities that, very often, do not exist."
I believe that having a number system on photos could help with the way women feel about themselves. I know that I become very self-conscious about myself after looking through a magazine. If I knew that someone had plastic surgery to look as good as they do in the photo I wouldn't feel so bad about the way that I looked. Mr. Hudson states that, "unfortunately we are living in a retouched world." With this being said I believe something does need to change. It is not fair to us women that we feel we should look as perfect as a digitally touched up photo looks.

Anne Nicole Smith's Doctors Were Warned

“Pharmaceutical suicide” is being linked to Anna Nicole Smith’s death, according to the article, Anna Nicole Smith’s doctors were warned.
Three pharmacists refused to fill the prescriptions and warned the doctors about how deadly the drugs are. The drugs included an anti-inflammatory drug, four bottles of a strong painkiller, two sedatives, a muscle relaxer, and 300 tablets of methadone.
Next month a preliminary hearing is scheduled for Smith’s boyfriend and her physicians in reference to whether or not Smith was illegally provided controlled substances, which lead to her death.
This is a story that hits very close to home for myself. My father passed away almost to years ago due to an overdose from prescription drugs. I have always wondered how it is so easy for doctors to write out prescriptions to people who don’t need to be taking all of the medicine they are being prescribed. After my father passed away I found out that two of the drugs in his system when taken together could lead to a fatality. Unfortunately justice was not served for the doctors who were prescribing large amounts of prescription drugs to my father. Hopefully the case will be different for Smith’s family and if she was prescribed the wrong amount of drugs justice will be served.

The promotion of "The Jay Leno Show"

"The Jay Leno Show" made its debut Monday night on NBC. According to the article, A Deluge by NBC to promote Leno's Show, an estimated ten million dollars was spent on promoting the new show.
It all began back in February when NBC ran a commercial during the Super Bowl to promote the show. The reason for spending this much money is because NBC believes that Mr. Leno is America's most popular t.v. personality. The ad's have been on taxi cabs, billboards, magazines, buses, movie theaters, radio stations, t.v., and even on gas pumps.
Repetition, repetition, repetition seems to be the main sales tactic for promoting the show. In my opinion this can lead to very high expectations for the viewers and I can speak from experience. I can't even count how many commercials I have seen with in the last few months promoting the show. I am a fan of Jay Leno and after seeing all of the commercials I watched the show to see what all of the hype was about. Unfortunately I was very disappointed. It was an okay show, funny at times, but spending ten million dollars to promote the show seems simply ridiculous.