Questions about the effects of television violence on children have existed since the earliest days of this medium. Fistfights, shootouts, car crashes, rapes, take your pick. Violence is universal on television, sometimes gory and gruesome, other times clean and remote. This classic study remains one of the documentaries to examine TV violence in children. Clips from action-adventure series, Saturday morning cartoons, the nightly news and MTV are all invading our television screens everyday. Prime time programs average eight hostile acts per hour; children's shows four times as much. Violence is depicted as a normal, justified re
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