Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL Freedom Fest continued ' **w i ■ H^MK'i ;j>• i " >jSXX t "«sggpp * f ' 0# 't/'- £j&gi ' V xha^gzsi- ENl'Gary Harmon ABOVE and RIGHT: Drake and Cody Henry cool off in the bubble slide before heading off to do a little dunking. People have reepoeeiUty to oioiitor TV QUESTION: I am veiy irritated by all the sex and violence on television night after night. The movies are bad enough, but now the sit co m s are just as bad. Is there any way we can Dr. James Dobson Focus on the Family www.family.org influence the networks to be more responsible in their programming? DR. DOBSON: We have more power to influence tele vision programming than we think. I’m told that every letter received is estimated to represent 40,000 view ers who didn’t take time to write. It’s important to know, however, where those letters should be sent. In earlier days, I wrote directors, producers and other executives at the televi sion networks. My complaints either received rude replies or were largely ignored. I’ve since learned it’s more ben eficial to write the sponsors - the people who pay the bills. They have better rea son to care what I think. Witness the success of Fort Worth, Texas, dentist Dr. Richard Neill, who became upset with the kind of filthy programming aired regularly on the Phil Donahue show during hours when children could have been watching. He began writing the com mercial sponsors and inform ing them of what their money was supporting. One after another, more than 100 of these advertisers began dropping the show. By 1996, the Donahue program was no longer viable, and it went off the air. Advertisers are very responsive to the opinions of viewers because they are spending millions of dollars to promote their products. QUESTION: Is depres sion more common among men or women? DOBSON: Depression occurs in both sexes but is less frequent in men. It is also more crisis-orient ed. In other words, men get depressed over specific prob lems such as a business set back or an illness. Typically, however, they are less likely to experience the vague, gen eralized, almost indefinable feeling of discouragement that some women encounter on a regular basis. DobsoA is founder and chairman of the board of the nonprofit organization Focus on the Family, P.O. Box 444, Colorado Springs, CO. 80903; or www.family.org. Questions and answers are excerpted from The Complete Marriage and Family Home Reference Guide and Bringing Up Boys. I : WORK. we help people become self sufficient by experiencing the pride and satisfaction of earning a pay check. Building lives, families, and communities ONE JOB AT A TIME, I www.goodwillworks.org goodimii, If at Eisner laser Center, IflJlll| LASIK is more affordable LASER VISIOH EOIIRECTWH ™ an Is cost the only thing holding you hack from a life without the m hassle of glasses or contacts? Well, listen to this ~for a very w^ limited time we ’re taking ™ our premier* LASIK, the laser vision correction procedure f overwhelmingly preferred by the world’s leading eye w * And that’s not all! We also offer ano money \ V / W't down, no interest for 2 years payment plan that « I * . X'.' f m makes LASIK affordable for everyone! \ i \ X But it’s only for a very limited time, so call \ /M Ms today to schedule your complimentary \T *'*-*• " m h consultation with one of the Southeast’s XI J 1 iw in nn Xv i Plantation *Offer good only on premier lasik procedure and bilateral procedure only. RELIGION T A 3 nk _ i -jEjt HggHHHS; /£jwl l v ~ -J;. X 'k§. -mBB W&i. : * %•zPSiIR *' ■i.-- ||||||||| iHi 1P& fifxP f|H m Jam S'^l *• 'vMb I it M ■ 1 • i if - Vp-S. ‘jf|| *» ■ < •*> w mmmMM ,'mmM Mmm a ■*+’&** \ • ■f fIHH °&J K, VBl - iv dfl yjW V gß®!%. fS& ffif .A*?.;. «l ' H £ C S%J§ i‘ ‘4 % : - v.; aSte fit MS? ;V 'V Es 9®„ 15 S«S SaSL S K ..r.:. • - ■ WimfP 'A' ~ m y'- Mr*W~ &R gtej&r mP* : : your donation of previously loved items- helps receive the training needed to find 9 'I f c . Ijjandujil! | r «T SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2007 11A