People in each age group are affected by TV violence in different ways. Some may favor it while other may not have the stomach for it. In “Violence Never Solved Anything, but It’s Entertaining,” Holman W. Jenkins Jr. verifies that males and females age eighteen to thirty-four and males age thirty five to forty-nine are the ones who demand violent entertainment the most. Of those statistics, the younger generations seem to be the ones who would be most effected. Is society to believe that this small percentage of the population is the leading cause of violence in the world? Opinions tend t

“Critics of TV violence claim it teaches children sadism and cruelty. I honestly don’t know whether or not TV violence is harmful, but if so the critics have it backwards. Children can’t learn to enjoy cruelty from the neat, sanitized mayhem on the average series. There isn’t any! What they learn is far more malignant: that guns or fists are clean, efficient, exciting ways to deal with a difficult situation. Bang! – you’re dead! Bop! – you’re unconscious (temporarily)!”

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Maybe society is just afraid to face the real issues of why violence is so common. In “TV Causes Violence? Try Again,” Ira Glasser has the right idea in this matter. Glasser states that finding scapegoats and diverting our attention from real and difficult problems is not new. The whole reason why TV is blamed for violence was summed up by that one thought. When society deals with issues such as murder, rape and other various types of violence, they find it easier to blame it on television rather than deal with the real reasons behind it. The solution for putting a halt to drugs or guns on the streets could possibly take lifetimes to figure out. To rid ourselves of TV violence, we need only have a popular vote. “…dealing with television is easy. We can censor it. We can

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