... Ph. D., at the University of Pennsylvania, that show that children's television programming has on average 20 violent acts per hour, while surprisingly prime time programming averages just 8 an hour. In one of these studies, one hundred preschool age children were taken and had their actions observed both before and after watching ... time high in the 1982-1983 time period, with cartoons being the most violent and indecent programming of all (Gerbner). New inventions throughout the last twenty years have decreased the amount of hours that the television is viewed in the home. Nonetheless...

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