... just "funny" cartoons, were more likely to hit their playmates, argue, disobey class rules, leave tasks unfinished, and weren't willing to wait for things than those who watched non violent TV shows," says Althea Huston, Ph.D., now at the university of Kansas. While children are still in their formative years, before they leave elementary school, those among them who watch the ... typical amount of TV will see about 20,000 murders and about 80,000 other assaults. That's around 100,000 violent acts witnessed by these children before they reach teenage (Children and Television). Some ... ...

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... violent television is damaging teens; parents and other responsible adults must keep inappropriate material out of the hands of teens. Many teens see violence on TV, and are influenced by that, what they don't see is the consequences that the person will get in if they commit the violent crimes. ... warm compliments or a gesture. In the same sense, many parents are thinking of ways to make sure their teens won't get too attached to violent TV. There are many solutions to solve these problems. An article written by many researchers claims, parents don't pay attention to violent shows the...

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... more aggressive, and it seems like the misleading lessons will never end, there may still be light at the end of the tunnel. In "How TV Violence Hits Kids," Jeffrey Mortimer states, " Eron and his research colleague, Rowell Huesmann, as leading researchers on the effects of media violence on the young ... Speech," Floyd Abrams tells of one proposal developed Senators Byron L. Dorgan and Conrad Burns where Congress would bar the showing of any act of violence on TV in the evening before, say 11 P.M. Abrams continues to say, "that no program or film with any violence, whatever its artistic...

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... daily (Cantor & Wilson, 1984, p. 28). Television can be a powerful influence in developing value systems and shaping behavior. Unfortunately, much of today's television programming is violent. Studies of the effects of TV violence on children and teenagers have found that children may become insensitive to violence. Consequently, they tend to gradually accept violence as a way to solve problems by imitating the violence ... 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 spe...

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... it's easy for them to watch different kinds of shows without parental consent. Some people contend that it's not what children watch on TV but how easily obtainable guns are. The people who say violence on television does cause children to be violent site psychological research. They ... depictions of murder, by the time he or she finishes sixth grade. Numerous studies have been done to show the correlation of violence in TV and children's propensity to be violent from watching it. George Gerbner, at the University of Pennsylvania, showed that children's television shows contain about ....

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... programs, the juvenile crime rate has increased. It is very evident to see that television and juvenile violence go hand and hand. Turn on the TV any time of any day and one can bring a carnival of murder, mayhem, and bloodshed right into the living room. Maybe, like many Americans ... 25). If only one would step back and look at this through the eyes of a child and consider what role TV has played in their lives. It is easy to see what a menace TV violence really is. The average American 4 to 8 years old will view 250 episodes of war cartoons and 1,000 ... are more likely to stick with ...

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... they have to control their ego when they are with friends. In the case of children's morality and commonsense, now, violent scenes on television influences children's morality. Too much TV violence on children causes the problem, which "Children may become less sensitive to the pain and suffering of others. Viewing violence encourages children to see other people as "enemies" ... and obesity among children. Retrieved March 20, 2002 from National Institute on Media and the Family: http://www.mediaandthefamily.org/research/fact/tvandobchild.shtml Moody, K. The Problems with Kind's TV. Retr...

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... is often the person in the show that punishes the "bad guy" (Cantor, 1998, p.98). Although there are many behavioral problems with children who watch excessive amounts of violence on TV, programs can also have a positive effect on children of all ages. For example, children who watched the television program called Sesame Street gained in cultural pride, self-confidence, and interpersonal ... ...

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... harm his sister. However, television perhaps was responsible for altering his views of reality. Many researchers claim that there is a direct correlation effect with the amount of violence seen on TV and the amount of violent behavior one commits. However, an unrealistic approach and inconsistency of the studies often flaw the research in this area. Firstly, researchers in laboratories can, with ... and Violent Behavior, which was published in a journal Social Forces the authors suggests a theory about the effect television has on violent behavior. The authors suggest that, "It is possib...

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... influence in developing value systems and shaping behavior. Unfortunately, much of today's television programming is violent therefore negatively shaping the attitudes of youngsters. Many studies today show the effects of TV violence on children and teenagers. These studies found that they may become immune to the horror of violence, gradually accept violence as a way to solve problems, imitate the violence ... physically harmful consequences against an animate being or group that occur as a result of unseen violent means. According to psychological research children suffer three negati...

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... when it is abused when viewing becomes a problem, and of children 8 and older, 61 per cent live in homes with no rules about TV use. Therefore, if not used responsibly, television has the potential to be a detrimental influence on the growth and development of children, which can ... bone mass. All Canadian and US studies of the effect of prolonged childhood exposure to television show a positive relationship between earlier exposure to TV violence and later physical aggressiveness, with three general effects being: Children may become less sensitive to the pain and suffering of others,...

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... is Television. "The context in which most violence is presented on television poses risks for younger viewers" (UCLA monitoring report) Violence on TV is at epidemically high levels for example eighty-five percent of cable programming is violent. (UCLA monitoring report) This on-slot of television ... violence is affecting children in many harmful ways. As a result of observing this high amount of TV violence, children are now becoming desensitized to violence in real life situations. Therefore children are not able to decide what is appropriate behavior and ... After all, aggressive k...

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... for children under seven, and there are about 400 episodes of violence that are considered high risk for teens (Nisbett 4). Viewing violence on TV promotes aggressive behavior, particularly in children. Children use violence as a first and not as last resort to conflict these days. Research has shown ... women, the top twenty percent were twice as likely to have thrown something at their husbands. Results showed that participants who were rated as "high TV-violence viewers" had shoved someone in anger, committed a crime or a moving violation, and even punched, beaten, or choked another a...

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... ). Exposure to violence on television poses harmful risks to children and helps to contribute to cases of real life violence. After work and sleeping, TV watching consumes the largest amount of time, and it is certainly a very persuasive social activity (Gunn). Something needs to be done about the ... amounts of violence readily available for children to see on TV because there is no doubt that it is harmful to the children of the world. Television violence can negatively affect the minds of its viewers ... in 73% of all violent scenes on television the perpetrators go without consequenc...

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... the media and its affects on children demonstrate that it does adversely affect most children. "Television violence refers to all violence appearing on TV screens and involves that act of injuring or killing someone or the threat of injuring or killing someone" (Baby Bag Online ). Media ... screen.... The politicians won't, or can't, deal with the real life social problems that promote violence in America.... so they try to make TV programs and movies the scapegoats! How pathetic!" . Secondly, one other important individual who has also studied media violence in relation to affects ... H...

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... is inappropriate for your child. Also as a parent, you should prevent harmful effects from television in other areas such as racial or sexual stereotyping. The amount of time children watch TV, regardless of content, should be moderated, because it keeps children from other, more beneficial activities such as reading and playing with friends. If parents have serious difficulties setting limits, ... viewing of television violence by children causes greater aggressiveness. Yes, I know overseeing what we watch or what our children watch maybe somewhat time consuming but we have to understan...

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... many children to behaviors not appropriate to a young audience. Remember "the Menendez brothers, who ruthlessly shot their parents as they ate ice cream and watched TV in their family room, planted in children's minds the worst possibility -- that a parent could die violently at the hands of a child." (Medved, ... ESPN2 correspondent from the Atlanta area believes that "parents play an important role; without them, they [children] have nothing to listen to except TV and movies. Those medias were not made to teach your children and take care of them. They are entertainment art." (Nathans...

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... , 1996). In their research, they discovered continuous and consistent behavioral effects linked to film and television demonstrated by patients. What people watch on TV is also continuing to corrupt the way people looked at themselves. In recent years, more and more people are receiving treatment for negative feelings toward ... their bodies and their love lives. Patients feel that because their lives aren't as perfect as the lives of the people on TV, there must be something wrong with them. Psychologists are also noticing an increase in atrocious violent acts by patients, acts similar ...

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... American preschooler watches more than 27 hours of television per week up through ages 3 and 4 most children are unable to distinguish fact from fantasy on TV" (Centerwall, pg 128). Centerwall also supports his claims by presenting the many different studies that have been done that have evidence supporting his claims. ... show that many people realize it is a problem but they just are afraid to touch the issue. In reading Siano's arguments to the effects of TV violence on children I often wondered if he agreed or disagreed with Centerwall. He came on very strongly at first stating, " th...

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... anti-social behavior according to Madeline Levine, psychologist. (Viewing Violence, 1996) Dr. Jib Fowles, a researcher from the University of Houston would disagree. He testified to the U.S. Congress that TV violence was a good way to relieve tension. Dr. Radecki strongly disagreed saying that "Fowles has never done a single psychological or aggression research study in his life...No aggression researcher alive ... bigger than in countries such as Britain where welfare and taxation systems mitigate some of the social and class differences. Fiske is not blaming social systems for the viol...

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... Harvard University Career Award in excellence. Jennings break down after the September 11th attack on the United States and his broadcast was compared to Walter Cronkite's break down on National TV when JFK was shot. (ABC News WebPages, and Peter Jennings WebPages.) According to the Radio-Television News Directors Association Code of Ethics, the responsibility of radio and television journalists is ... today's U.S. media market seems to be the blame for many violent ideas/acts that young children have, Japan, which is second in the world as far as showing violence on TV for entertainmen...

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... around us. Instead of nurturing us with useful information, we are fed up with deception. An example is written on Steven D. Stark's article, "Local News: The Biggest Scandal on TV," he wrote there the study published by the Columbia Journalism Review about the news stations ignoring false information given out by the local news. Stark says, "A 1990 study ... fear and consumption." Condemning crime and violence is an important obligation of a news organization. According to Steven D. Stark in his article entitled, "Local News: The Biggest Scandal on TV," he mentioned a study about local...

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... behavior it is among the risk factors associated with it. In fact, most studies agree that there is a relation between exposure to television violence and aggressive violent behavior. I mean watch TV for a day and count the number of times women are objectified. "Sex sells" it's a term used throughout the industry. It's not right but its true, and the more it sells ... will see it. I think media has a great impact on violence in general, but we cannot blame violence and gender violence on the media. There was violence way before we had TV and radio, and there will continue to be long af...

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... "funny" cartoons, were more likely to hit their playmates, argue, disobey class rules, leave tasks unfinished, and were not willing to wait for things than those who watched non violent TV shows" (Thomas 69). Real life studies have provided important facts supporting the idea that "violence from children may be cause by what they watch" (Susson 20). They can show the ... , this rating system is lacking in several ways. Eron says, "by labeling programs with age designations rather than indicating how much violence, sex, or adult language the shows contain, the TV industry may create a boo...

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... media violence and societal violence is that violence in the United States began to increase "fairly dramatically in 1965." "This is exactly when the first generation of children raised on TV began to reach the prime ages for committing violent crimes" (Bushman & Anderson, 2001, p.478). Violence is seemingly glorified, honored, and celebrated in mass media and signals to our people that ... , children will have seen 16,000 simulated murders and 200,000 acts of violence in television alone (Muscari, 2002). Today 99% of homes have a television, with 54% of U.S. children having a TV in thei...

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