In the mid 1940's, America was introduced to the home television. ... People began to rely on television for their news and entertainment. ... Television also provided people with a new source of entertainment in television programming like CBS's I Love Lucy and NBC's The Aldrich Family. Television connected Americans as they sat around their television sets watching The $64,000 Question on CBS. ... Research by the American Press Institute reveals that people with Internet access are just as likely as anyone else to watch the news on television or tune into news radio on their w...

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As a young child I recall watching several programs that were educational and appealed to my youthfulness. As a pre-teen I remember watching such shows as "Saved by the Bell," "Home Improvement," and "The Simpsons." ... With the invention of television also came an explosion of pop-culture. ... It is said that the average person spends one-third of their life enveloped in watching TV. ... The average child entering first grade has spent nearly 5,000 hours watching television, and that same child by age eighteen will have spent more time watching television than attending school. ...

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My family spends countless hours watching television. Watching television as they wake up, as they eat and before they go to bed. ... Many attribute this problem to the violence children watch on television. ... As a child, I was left to be watched by the television. ... The siblings in the family have gotten to the point were they would rather watch television rather than be with the family. ...

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Television is an important factor in most children's lives. The average school-age child in the United States spends about five hours each day watching T.V. ... There are some ways to affect the influence of television on children. ... School-Age Children: Encourage planned watching or consider keeping a record of T.V. watching. ... Watch television with your children. ...

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Now scientists have discovered that all the violence in television can in fact mold a young innocent person into becoming a monster right under our eyes, just by watching television. ... Children in the United States watch Television an average of 7 ¼ hours per day, 5,000 hours by the first grade and 19,000 hours by the end of High school . ... Studies conducted by scientists have found that the behavior of hostile kids in school were influenced by the shows they watched, especially if the youngsters were heavy watchers of violent programming. ... Even though aggression was found in children...

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What has television done to my generation? ... The average American household has 1.1 televisions. ... When people watch television, they are bombarded with commercials, many being repeated every commercial break. ... I am able to write this paper because I grew up with a television, but I was never allowed to watch anything but Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune until I was 16 (I"m not bullshittin" you). ... My generation believes that they are happy because they have finally achieved what they have seen on television and they think that if people love those on television, and they act just...

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Protesters of television violence believe an increase in television sales also has a negative affect on adolescents viewing violent programming. ... A 1993 report by the American Psychological Association warned that the average American child is watching 8,000 murders and 100,000 acts of violence before leaving elementary school (Hepburn 244). ... Several people who reject television violence are certain that children may also be more likely to behave in aggressive or harmful ways toward others due to the violence seen on television. ... The V-Chip can be programmed to block out shows with hi...

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It is seen everywhere; on television, on radio and in movies presenting explicit images to impressionable young kids. ... On a regular day there is, on average, 9.4 sexual interactions per hour broadcasted on regular television. By the time children reach early adolescence it is expected for them to have viewed 108,000 sexual acts on television. These young and receptive kids watch these shows and begin to think that sex is something that can be taken lightly. ... Something has to be done to protect the youth from sex and violence in the media; weather it be parents controlling what their kids...

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Television causes violence in children. ... This would give parents an opportunity to take the block off if they wanted their children to watch something. That way the government can prevent most violence while letting the parents have final say over what their children watch. ... Many parents do not know that their children are watching morally and emotionally deteriorating things. ... Perhaps the most important way to prevent children from watching television violence is to stop it where it starts. ...

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In the United States children watch an average of three to four hours of television daily (Cantor & Wilson, 28). ... Television violence for children who watch this show may presume that the Power Rangers use violence to prevent bad things. ... While visiting family in California, my two nephews kicked me as I walked in to the living room where they had been watching television, and they just laughed about it. ... I believe aggression modeled by children from watching television could be curbed when more of the influential adults in children's lives are involved. T...

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Weekends are considered family time in the United States and they spent much of their time watching television together. Television brought families together inside of their living room to watch programs for hours at a time. ... Television gives Americans wisecracks and at the same time sparks conversation but, still the conversations are all about television which creates the perception that all Americans do is watch television because they're too lazy. ... Television today has better quality, more feature , and a lot more channels- creating subcultures of certain people who only watch c...

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From the ages from six till eighteen research has shown that kids will spend more time watching television than any other single activity whether it being schoolwork, playing or any social activity (Abandoned In The Wasteland, Page 18). ... "When a class of two- to five-year-olds watched public television's big-hearted purple dinosaur, "Barney," they sang along, marched along, held one another's hands, and laughed together. The next day, the same class watched the aggressive teenage avengers, "Power Rangers." ... One of the towns had no access to television due to its location on a m...

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Color television was a huge improvement from black and white. It gave people a better perspective of what they were watching. ... Now people could get the news from just watching TV. ... People were now able to watch a game in the comfort of their own home. ... People were now able to find out the weather by just watching television. ...

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In fact, 61% of all television programs feature violence and violent acts. ... Children and young adults listen to music and watch television in extremely large quantities. ... Children learn by observing the world around them and watching violent acts on television isn"t a beneficial observation. ... Due to all the television someone watches, they have a belief that the world is as terrible and cruel as television is. ... The more television they watch, the more they believe life to be like television. ...

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The rule, long out of favor by broadcasters, made television and radio stations air all sides of controversial issues. ... That FCC rule, which dated from the 1940's and was long abhorred by broadcasters, required television and radio stations to air all sides of controversial issues. ... Television During the 1986-1987 prime-time television season and continuing into the 1987-1988 programming schedule, NBC held a commanding lead in ratings over ABC and CBS. ... These devices, which require participating viewers to punch a series of buttons on a remote-control device each time they w...

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These skills include: - Limiting the amount of television children watch - Monitoring the programs children watch and restricting the viewing of violent programs - Monitoring the music videos and films children see, as well as the music they listen to for violent themes - Help their children to distinguish the difference between fantasy and reality - Teaching them that real life violence has consequences - Asking children how they feel after watching a violent TV show, movie, or video game (American Academy of Pediatrics). In many cases the parents aren't around to teach their ch...

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The day in which the blackout occurred was just like any other day, some people were watching television, my brother was using the computer, and as for me, I was either playing video games, or doing nothing. I went to the kitchen to get a glass of water, when I finished, I decided to go watch my brother play his games. The moment I opened the door, I noticed that my aunt turned off the television, and when I got down to the basement where my brother was, and my brother told me that the power was out. ... That night, instead of watching television like we usually do, we listened to the radio...

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Ever since the creation of the television and Internet, censorship has been a prime issue in the media industry. ... (www.epic.org/free_speech/censorship/) We also need censorship on the television. ... Many parents were upset because the Superbowl is supposed to be a family event and many children were watching. Another reason we need to censor the television is that children do what they see on television. ... Young children are most affected by what they see on television. ...

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Despite the internet is popular today, television is still the important medium for children's advertising. ... A typical American child spends about twenty-one hours a week watching television. Outside of school, they spend more time watching television than any other activities. However, many studies said that young children did not know the difference between television programming and television advertising(46). ...

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Every four years, the World Cup is watched by literally billions all over the world, beating out the United States professional football's Superbowl by a large amount. In fact, it is estimated that 1.7 billion television viewers watched the World Cup final between France and Brazil in July of 1998, far more viewers then any Super Bowl has seen. ... Those breaks in the action are ideal for television commercials. ... This spreading out across the vast soccer field does not lend itself to close get-down-and-dirty television scrutiny. ... But it doesn't, primarily because it does not...

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It's insane to think that something as insignificant as a television show could provide a much needed relaxer from everyday life. ... This is why it was so easy for people to just relax and watch them, not to worry about what is going on outside. In a way the television industry did respond to the attacks of September 11th, 2001, just in their own way. The television industry provided the needed relief with reality shows. ...

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We begged and begged the teacher to let us watch the news to see what was going on, but he claimed we could not watch it as he was instructed not to turn on the television. ... I guess their teacher let them watch the news. ... When I came home from school, I went right to the television and couldn't help but turn it to a channel about the attack. ...

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The Vietnam War occurred at an interesting time in the development of television. It was not the first war to happen while television existed; both World War II and the Korean War were fought in the infant stages of television. ... By the time the Vietnam War escalated in the mid-1960s, television was ready to capture the war's images and most Americans were able to watch in their homes. ... In addition to television news, the only other sources of information about the war were newspapers and radio, which both faced declining use because of television's popularity. ... By 1965, the...

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The media has a great influence on society, and their depiction of Latin women is detrimental to the careers of Hispanic actresses aspiring to work in film and television. ... Hollywood's intentional type-casting of the Latin woman justifies their hyper-sexual display in film and television. ... It is frustrating to witness the discrimination in the entertainment industry, because American audiences that do not have exposure to Latin cultures, and believe that Latinos only look and act the way they are perceived on television. ... At the 2014 Emmy Awards presentation, CEO and Chairman, Br...

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Books are not the only problem with the society; people have become conformed to a boring life of watching television, looking at walls and listening to sea shell radios. ... Until then I"ll have to keep watching my TV wall....

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