... that people come in all shapes and sizes. First of all, parents have a responsibility to talk with their children about the adverse media messages; and how to start a healthy lifestyle. They should also limit exposure of media to one to two hours per day. Also, parents should ensure that all family members are getting a nutritionally balanced meals and snacks at regular ... intervals throughout the day. One source stated that, "Children's eating behavior is influenced by the habits modeled by their parents" (Derenne 260). Finally, parents should remind their ... internet connections, and...

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... of blacks. There is focus on urban talk shows, such as "Jerry Springer" and "Rikki Lake," which often present troubled "minorities" who foolishly play to the camera for the entertainment of television audiences. These shows give the idea, fabricated or not, that these "minorities," especially African-Americans, are lazy, undisciplined, self-defeating individuals who, for one reason or another, need to be ... displayed on national television to aid them in to becoming better people. Programming like this has become the forerunner in the afternoon time slots, airing between the hours of no...

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... to say that poorly cultural knowledge is due to the all junk television produced, been affected all generations. Finally, television is focused in produce entertainment to the audience. According to some statistics showed in an article of New York daily news, an American newspaper, the average American over the age of 2 spends more than 34 hours a week watching live television and programs related to ... popular TV shows. Is that the most of people is concerned more in popular shows and entertainment ... but the real situation is that the media as a medium of information should stop to...

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... ; nor have Saturday morning programs for children, marked by excessively violent cartoons, changed much for the better- (Cullingford 61). One may ask, "Why can't the government or the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) intervene to control the amount of violent programming that currently circulates during most broadcasting hours?- Edward Palmer states: "The FCC's reluctance to regulate - especially directly about violent content - is consistent with that of many ... other groups. Because the First Amendment guarantees freedom of the press, no direct censorship or programming has eve...

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... ; nor have Saturday morning programs for children, marked by excessively violent cartoons, changed much for the better- (Cullingford 61). One may ask, "Why can't the government or the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) intervene to control the amount of violent programming that currently circulates during most broadcasting hours?- Edward Palmer states: "The FCC's reluctance to regulate - especially directly about violent content - is consistent with that of many ... other groups. Because the First Amendment guarantees freedom of the press, no direct censorship or programming has eve...

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... an average of four hours a day, 28 hours a week, 2,400 hours a year, nearly 18,000 hours by the time they graduate from high school (Chen, 1994, p.23). In comparison, they spend a mere 13,000 hours in school, from kindergarten through twelfth grade (Chen, 1994). It appears children spend more time watching TV than any other activity. Studies have shown that children, in the hours between school and dinnertime ... , spend nearly 80 percent of the time watching television (Chen, 1994). Children living in poverty watch even more ... television than average -- some up to seven hours a day. B...

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... child's mental well-being is developed into doing what is right. On average, children watch about three to four hours of television per day or approximately 28 hours every week that is equivalent of having a part time job. It seems that the media is limiting the amount of time children have for other activities, like playing, exercise, studying and most important spending time with ... . Childhood is supposed to be a time of nurturing, a time where children can develop both mentally and physically and be free from the violence they see in the media. Each year, children spend about 1,500 h...

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... how society in general has responded to television and its depiction of sex. There are hundreds of broadcast, cable and satellite television channels sending out scores of hours of programming to viewers across the world. The question is what is actually shown on television and how often is it shown? A study (Greenberg, 1998) found that in one average hour of prime time television ... and adolescents are on television sets. With so many children tuned into television every day, one would think that children's shows would be the main focus, but in the United States that isn't the fact. A...

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... one after-school activity for children. They spend approximately twenty-two to twenty-eight hours per week viewing television, making this activity the most common out of all child activities, besides sleeping. Each year children spend about nine-hundred hours in the classroom compared to the fifteen-hundred hours they spend watching T.V. One recent study found that thirty-two percent of two to seven year olds ... from parents. Children are constantly learning through television social behaviors that will last them throughout their lives; so it is important, for the well being of our ch...

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... of TV sets in a household has increased, family viewing has declined, and individual program selection and solitary viewing have increased. The average weekly viewing time has increased annually in American households, from 43 hours in the early seventies to 50 hours in the mid-nineties (Buchanan). Studies of younger viewers who daily watch cartoons, police shows, and murder dramas with heavy doses of ... because they know that television is fantasy. They may not recognize that their children lack reasoning abilities and often view the television world as being real and shape their behavi...

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... TV on children. The worries were first about the violence on TV, then increased to address the amount of time spent on TV, the quality of TV programs, and the way television portrayed men, women and ethnic minorities. First, how can the amount of time spent on TV affect children? Surveys show that the typical American household has a TV set turned on for about 7 hours each day. Researchers ... on television. Topics such as drug abuse, alcoholism, and sex may also be brought to children's attention sooner than the normal age (Children and Television). Fourth, TV could decrease creativity...

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... . Considering that most Americans have an average of 2.5 television sets in their homes and watch an average of three to four hours of programming a day, the television has made its way into our everyday life. With television being such a huge portion of the American life, it is becoming an even bigger portion of our children's lives. With American adults having less and less ... content of television and children watching it. It states, "Children in the United States view about 2.5 hours of television per day by the time they enter elementary school, increase their viewing to almost 4 h...

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... life long problems and potentially increasing their violent behavior. When children sit in front of the television for several hours a day, it provokes the loss of creativity, impatience, and a dispensation towards violence. As we will see from the research gathered from secondary sources, the more children watch television, the more likely they are to be violent as a young adult and later as an ... a child reacts to his environment is a direct reflection of how they see the world and how TV portrays that world. On average, children between the ages of two and eighteen spend almost five...

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... be faced with daily problems, and will not know how to solve them, because television does not shows children how to do it. On the book, Media and The American Child, published by Erica Scharrer, clearly says that television does not support a healthy brain development, because when kids watch television, these ... get worse, if children watch all kinds of programs. The effects on school performance depends on the shows they watch and how many hours they spend watching it. Spending time watching TV on weekdays is what affects the most their grades, because these are the days where they sh...

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... advance scholastically and improve their lifestyle. All of this information must bombard, overwhelm and, convince the viewer a.k.a. consumer in a matter of hours minutes and, seconds. The second time slot addressed is the most highly coveted and focused time, the prime time slot. The prime time slot is the opportunity for networks as well as advertisers to entertain and market viewers/consumers, at a ... where most people are winding down, after having been at home a few hours or even just arriving home. The shows the networks run during this time period are their absolute best. Whether,...

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... of combining these two elements (Hepburn 244). First of all, today's adolescent watches more television and movies when compared to an adolescent from the early 1970s. Recent studies have shown that the average American child spends approximately four to five hours a day hypnotized in television programs full of violent content (Hepburn 244). Protesters of television violence believe an increase in television sales also ... elementary school (Hepburn 244). Many who reject television violence are persuaded that the violence shown on several programs has actually increased for example, ai...

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... the advertisers know that kids will want what they see and ask their parents for it. Companies know children are in the position to be taken advantage of and that's why experts estimate that more than $12 billion dollars a year is spent just on advertisements targeting children. In an hours ... worth of watching children's television, there were over 35 commercials- compared to an hours worth of ... adult television with only about 22 commercials shown. This proves that children influence the economy's spending money each year. The media of television is changing the way our children ar...

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... some cases, lyrics transmit potentially harmful health messages. Music is important to teenagers" identity and helps them define important social and cultural boundaries. The results of a survey showed teenagers listened to music an average of 40 hours per week. Also numerous studies indicate that teenagers" preference for heavy metal music may be a significant marker for alienation, substance abuse, ... psychiatric disorders, suicide risk, or risk-taking behaviors during adolescence. All the research confirms that certain music can lead teenagers to a delinquent life. When music lyrics ...

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According to Neilson ratings, "Americans spend 34 hours a week watching TV." In spite of the prevalence of the Internet, television remains the convenient source of media for Americans, such as business men who watch the morning news and those who revel in staying up-to-date with their beloved television series; giving an advantage to marketing and advertising. Apple and Microsoft, two competing companies ... . Some commercials may be more critical than others, but nevertheless, what matters is the way the consumer evaluated the ad and whether if he/she will buy the product or not. In some cas...

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... except sleeping." Watching too much television is unhealthy for young people because of the violent adult programming, the influence on children to mimic the actions they see, and the harmful effects it has on a childs' ability to learn. The violence displayed on television leads children to believe that becoming aggressive is the only way to solve problems, become powerful, and popular. Futhermore, violent ... programming may also glorify abuse, assault, and murder. It is because of the childrens' false interpretation of the violence and adult content, that they can become more aggressi...

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... . Author Win sets forth one theory: all the hours that disturbed children spend involved in a television experience dull the boundaries between the real and the unreal (Winn, 1977, p. 74). She thinks that the act of watching television requires viewing projections of human images and the illusion of human feelings while requiring no human response from the viewer, and thus television encourages the viewer to detach from his or her ... federal appeals court recently struck down new FCC rules that would have restricted the broadcast of indecent television and radio programs to the hours be...

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... murders and 100,000 other acts of violence on television by the time he or she has completed sixth grade. In further studies it was determined that by the time that same child graduates from high school he or she will have spent 22,000 hours watching television, twice as many hours as he or she has spent in school.(Violence in Entertainment and ... Its Effect of Society) Despite these brief studies the long-term effects of violent programming have had minimal amounts ... of research. Comparing this to the amount of trillions of dollars of revenue generated by ... ...

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... incident in Ohio, five-year-old Austin Messner set his parent's house a fire killing his sister after viewing the popular MTV cartoon Beavis and Butthead. In response MTV moved the program to a time slot four hours later. However, did not claim responsibility. (Microsoft Internet's explorer) The implication is that people are passive beings easily influenced by what they see. Another implication is that all ... children are watching, as Austin Messner's mother should have been. This is not to suggest that a child can be monitored 24 hours a day. However establishing a sound foundation i...

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... products, including advertising (Melillo, 2000). Violence is apparent in most forms of media and is especially noticeable in television, which includes cartoons. The American child watches an average of 28 hours of television a week. By the age of 18, children will have seen 16,000 simulated murders and 200,000 acts of violence in television alone (Muscari, 2002). Today 99 ... media producers to attempt to curtail this problem. Parents need to become more responsible for the health of their children. Parents should adhere to the AAP Media Education recommendations. These recommendations ...

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... conclude that television viewing has a negative impact on people. In 1999, 47 percent of nine years of age children watch three to five hours of television daily, where at the same time 60 percent of all families watch television during meals. A number of studies done when television was a relatively new medium demonstrated ... to start and most of them try to waste their time until it starts. Nevertheless, many programs start evening, especially good action movies, and when the movie is over, its time to bed. In other cases, when children have their own television set in their rooms, th...

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