... television at a rate of five acts per prime-time hour and eighteen acts per weekend daytime hour (Huesmann, Eron, and Legerspetz). Because of new age technologies, such as satellite cable, and digital cable, children can easily be exposed to violence almost any time of day, and on just about any channel. Children have a more animated imagination than adults. Think back to when ... viewed by children that have not yet learned how to distinguish right from wrong. However, cable companies should put forth some effort to help by placing in parental controls on forms of cable such as satelli...

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... you shouldn't hesitate to say "NO" to a program if you think it is not appropriate. If a person does not like what they see on cable or a network station, they have the right to turn off the television or change the channel. Thus the miracle of modern technology comes into play. People, ... when they order cable channels such as HBO, Playboy and other premium channels know from the get go what they are getting into. Now, if they already know ... what they are getting into why should there be restrictions on cable television. You now the responsibilities before you order. Like Playboy, i...

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... the lesson that violence is successful. Viewers will believe that violence is socially acceptable and a good means to solving problems. This study also found that premium cable channels contain more violent programs than either public broadcasting channels or broadcast networks. Cable channels, therefore, have the highest risk of harmful effects on viewers. This is a problem since more and more people are adding ... cable to their homes everyday. There is another study which demonstrates the effects of violence on youth. A study by AACAP (American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatr...

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... brought up around. If the child was brought up around violence then most likely the child will react violently. The National Cable Television Association sponsored the most extensive study on television violence. They studied the amount and context of violence on cable, the effectiveness of rating systems and parental advisories, and the success of anti-violent messages. The study showed that perpetrators ... 73% of the time, the negative consequences of violence are not portrayed, One out of four violent programs contain the use of a handgun, and 83% of violence is portrayed on cable t...

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... perfect. But never-the-less violence was not part of it. When I was in 9th grade my father ordered cable TV because my mother wanted to watch Pakistani programs, which we can only view on cable. When they were not watching the cable TV, we use to flip the channel and watch channels like America plus or movie channels, which will have American ... ...

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... violence because it is one of the highest forms of entertainment we have. It has become a way of life for us in the twenty-first century. With the development of cable and satellite, many doors have opened up to the amount of programs with violent acts. Instead of having two to ten channels you now have hundreds. Violence Is Every were ... can also ban any movies, programs or shows that they strongly dislike their children watching. Television ratings were created by a committee made up of parents, television broadcasters, television programming producers, cable operators, and public in...

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... said of sports. Because of television, professional wrestling, which has always been a parody of the real sport, has become even more bizarre. The market share on TBS and the USA Cable Network is larger for wrestling than for recognized athletic events. Because of TV, the audience has become accustomed to seeing displays of outrageous behavior. Instead of nicknames like "Magic- Johnson ... ...

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... won't be for long. Thanks to games on CD-for computers, for the more expensive machines like 3DO and SegaCD-and, when it comes along, to digital entertainment delivered over cable or phone lines, adults will soon be driving sales."" (Barbour at el 94-95) With this idea from the industry, it is clear that the money involved is too important ... ...

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... the long-disproved catharsis theory." (Censorship, 1985) One of hundreds of studies done on this topic was The National Television Violence Study; a three-year research project funded by the National Cable Television Association issued in 1996. The study involved efforts from media scholars from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill among other schools. The study found that violence is ... ...

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... with their kids to explain these things, but still parents neglect this easy task, and then throw the blame on the media. Mr. Scott Broyles, the spokesman for the National Cable Television Association, emphasizes that parents must play a role in what their children watch (McCain). He is exactly right. It is not the violence in the media that causes children to ... ...

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... Violence" 1). The aggressor on television is frequently rewarded for the violence, which makes the children think they want to be the aggressor to get gifts or rewards (Gonzalez 2). The National Cable Television Association made a three-year study of television violence. It reported that sixty-percent of the sampled programs had violent scenes in them. The study warned parents to know that ... ...

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... music. However, with the explosion of satellite and digital channels, we now have access to a plethora of both good quality and inappropriate TV content. According to a study funded by the cable television industry, fifth-seven percent of television programs contain "psychologically harmful" violence (3). The risk of viewing the most common depiction of televised violence include learning to behave violently, become more ... ...

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... Leland stated in 1993, "the real problems are outside the music, not within." This statement can be backed up by looking outside America, to Mongolia, where "MTV is available on cable television, bootleg CDs blare from kiosks- Here, western music has had a great influence on the musical tendencies and affections of society. Music suited to the likings of American teenagers is ... ...

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... this, if they are influenced by anything, are influenced by news programs like your own. When an unbalanced kid walks into a school and starts shooting, it becomes a major media event. Cable news drops ordinary programming and goes around the clock with it. The story is assigned a logo and a theme song; these two kids were packaged as the Trench Coat Mafia. The ... ...

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... social issues, is now meeting with writers to develop ways for producing conflict without violence and showing the consequences of violence" (AAP Committee). MTV is the most rising station on cable right now. It shows a good amount of sex and violence everyday. But at MTV, almost one out of three music videos display inappropriate content. The problem isn't the violence in ... ...

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... by the many murders and violence viewed on the screen. Television has led to the moral decline in our nation like no other device in history. With the coming of cable and satellite television, Americans now have scores of channels to watch with very little educational value. Many children sit for hours in front of the television, and could not imagine ... ...

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... research has been done on how much violence is shown on television. The research states that four universities examined 9000 hours of television. Their conclusion was that most of the cable stations broadcasted some programs with violence. This evidence only shows that violence is present, but it does not show that people are affected by such programming. It is a known fact ... ...

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... ,000 acts of violence, at the age of 18, on TV alone (Some Things 2). An astonishing 2,605 violent acts were shown on Thursday, April 7, 1995, on a Washington D.C. home wired for cable and 566 of those acts were shown between 6 and 8 a.m., when children were likely to be watching (How Violence 1). It's not just the movies that are dangerous, but also the commercials ... ...

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