Absolutely. I think parents are less actively involved in mediating their kids' consumption of media, in part because of the explosion of sources. There's something shocking and unfortunate about the very fact that, as the CTF study found, 50% of Canadian kids had televisions in their bedrooms. I think that reflects the level of ignorance on parents' part about what's available on television and about the cognitive wiring in teens and children, which increasingly we're discovering is not sophisticated enough in the way that adult brains are. Clearly, adults are not as savvy about mediating kids' media consumption as they ought to be.
On March 13th, 2008. See this statement in context.