havior but cynical attitudes about the meaning of life ,value of community and dignity of the human person. With people imitating what they see on television directors and producers should kept in mind what they are making and how society might react to their programs. If people continue to imitate what they see on television it just proves to you that many people rely on television not just as a babysitter but as a device that influences young children to act violent in times of revenge. People must learn from past experience that if you do decide to lay own in the middle of a highway, as viewers did after watching ‘‘The Program' people do get hurt or even die. People should watch and learn from the television and from any aspect of television programming that if you do not learn from you mistakes you are doomed to repeat it. Children as well as adults see violent acts on television and believe that its alright to use violence as a way alleviate anger by actions - 10 - that are unlawful. But since the character get away with the crimes many individuals in the real world believe that they can get away with it as well. The more violent acts that are realistically portrayed the more likely it is to be imitated. Children are more likely to imitate characters they see. Actors that portray violence like Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator 2, and Conan the Barbarian. Some of the beneficial effects of sex and violence in the media are that some people might have a brain in their head and watch the news of how a child burned his house up accidentally killed his younger sister. People maybe have seen this and made a mental note to make such this never happens again. If congress does intervene with the networks on what they broadcast there would be more programs that aren't entertaining but educational. These programs might help children decide what is right and what is wrong. We all know that killing a person is wrong but many children think that its okay because they see it on television. - 11 -

y at Pennsylvania State University, psychologist Aletha Huston showed cartoons of fists fighting superheros to one group of four year old and nonviolent cartoons to another group. The children of the study were comprised of children that were aggressive in nature. The study found that the group that was shone the violent cartoons were more apt to hit and throw things after the - 3 - viewing. While the kids who watched the nonviolent cartoons remained relatively calm and docile. It was concluded that children that watch violent cartoons are more apt to commit crimes when they are adults, such as spousal abuse and drunk driving, according to Leonard Eron a psychologist at University Michigan's Institute for Social Research. Children might think it is okay to rob a bank, shoot someone or commit other violent crimes against another person. Also as the child grows older, he begins to believe that revenge through violence, as demonstrated on such shows as New York Undercover and NYPD Blue where people get revenge by breaking other peoples' noses, shooting them or committing hit and runs, is okay. In other words, a false impression of reality is formed for children. We have found out that cartoons are the most violent programming found to date in television today. Between the ages of two and twelve, the average amount of television watched is approximately 25 hours per week. Most of these 25 hours are comprised of cartoons. Cartoons like Tom and Jerry, where they both get hurt or blown up, and never die and always get back together, without a scratch. Again, this promotes a false sense of reality. Nowadays, there

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