”By the time most Americans are eighteen years old, they have spent more time in front of the television set than they have spent in school, and far more than they have spent talking with their teachers, their friends, or even their parents.”3

By far, the most disconcerting is a study by the American Academy of Pediatrics, which shows that a person will have spent approximately seven years watching television by the age of seventy.4 While the amount of television that is bein

Therefore, television, while respectfully entertaining, strongly promotes violence and sex, while also contributing to laziness and mindless behavior.

In studies done by Dr. Gerbner, he concluded that it perceives a dangerous and unsafe environment, in which children believe to be true.13 In many studies that have followed, the factors that lead to aggressive behavior have all the same background: in television.

The study also shows that out of approximately thirteen hundred programs, only nine percent reveals the consequences of sexual activity.21 Also, an important detail shows that sexual scenes were more prevalent on network programs (sixty-seven percent) than cable television (fifty-six percent).22

Furthermore, children become mesmerized by the images on the screen. Why you ask? Have you ever watched television!? The fact relies on common sense, for children only have eyes for the screen. The bright colors, quick movements and sudden flashes capture the child’s attention. Even though laziness and mindless behavior seem to play a major role in the promotion for “television zombies,” we cannot deny the fact that violence and sex in the media plays a very key role, as one will see in the rest of the paper.

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