Television Program Unfit For A Young Kid

Evidence: The National Coalition on Television Violence brought to light Dr. Thomas Radecki’s words that, "The cartoon and violent toy studies show that these materials cause children

A study from the American Psychological Association proved that adults are more likely to have aggressive behavior, if they were exposed to violent media during their childhood. This is also regardless of any different factors, such as childhood abuse or violent parents. The bureaucracy must ensure that their society does not become a violent one by controlling the air time of threatening shows. They should also verify the age of children before letting them access to certain media (which would be bad for them).

Th all pysch has thi sto say about media and childfren “studies have shown a twelve percent increase in aggressive behavior after watching violent television.” Censorship is permissible for young children, is it really necassry for a 4 year old to watch a movie filled with blood, gore and

This article was written by Lois Wyse. It can be found in Good Housekeeping magazine, February 1994 edition. This article is about television (TV) and how it gives a negative effect on children if not monitored correctly. The author says, “What does seem to be new is the ever-increasing plethora of profanity and the growing vulgarity in situations and in characters.” Three television shows today that might negatively impact children are “The Simpsons,” “Family Guy,” and “South Park.”

Children are also drawn to more mature programs in order to make them feel older and more mature by watching them, which is why the swearing and nudity need to be cut out. I support this view mainly because of an experience I had when I was about five years old. I snuck into the TV room without my parents knowing, and when I was flipping through the channels, I stopped on a channel that was showing the movie Die Hard. Just from watching a short segment of that movie, I quickly learned the “f” word and said it in class the next day. This initial view on censorship is significant because it can prevent children, who are the most influenced by TV, from practicing what they see. They will not learn these words or actions at an early age, like I did, and therefore will not get into trouble in school or teach them to other children. The downside to this stance is that it violates the right of freedom of speech.

Saturday morning cartoons contain twenty to twenty-five violent acts per hour (Stranger & Gridina, 1999). Pediatricians warn that media violence can be especially damaging to children under age eight because they cannot readily tell the difference between real life and fantasy. Many violent acts are perpetrated by the "good guys," whom kids have been taught to emulate. Even though kids are taught by their parents that it's not right to hit, television says it's OK to bite, hit, or kick if you're the good guy. This can lead to confusion when kids try to understand the difference between right and wrong. And even the "bad guys" on TV aren't always held responsible or punished for their actions (Nemours, 1995-2009). “These violent behaviors are learned,” said Dr. Slutkin (Herbert, 2010, p. 1). “They are largely formed by modeling, the almost unconscious copying of one another (Herbert, 2010, p. 1). And then they are maintained by the social pressure of peers (Herbert, 2010, p. 1). It becomes normal to reach for a gun (Herbert, 2010, p. 1). TV is full of programs and commercials that depict behaviors such as sex and substance abuse as cool, fun, and exciting. Studies have shown that teens who watch lots of sexual content on TV are more likely to initiate intercourse or participate in other sexual activities earlier than peers who don’t watch sexually explicit

All children are born with innocence; they have no knowledge of anything bad in the world. Some television programmers seem to oblivious to this fact. The morbid content shown on popular television shows and movies today is incriminating evidence of this. It is as if the concept of censorship is foreign to them. The legal definition of censorship is the act of banning any or all media resulting from the presumption that its content is perceived to be immoral by the Federal Government of the United States. Censorship involves the banning of any immoral content. Much of broadcasted media

In 1996 people couldn’t go to YouTube, Netflix, nor streaming to access favorite tv shows . But the only opinion in 1996 for entertainment was tv and VHS. One of the acts established was the telecommunications act of 1996 for censorship of entertainment on national tv. This meant that V-chips were installed into tvs to censor out violence/ sexual content. Eventually years later, there was a tv rating system in the U.S. for tv , to determine what should be and shouldn’t be censored on tv. If a person of a child doesn’t want their child to watch. They could easily let the child do something else rather than

The United States constitution gives Americans many rights. One of those rights is the freedom of speech. The Supreme Court has started hearing arguments in a case that could rewrite the rules for television stations now prohibited from pushing nudity or profanity on public airwaves. In the United States, while most American families view television shows with nudity, violence, and profanity as a threat to the traditional family structure. Some see it as their right to have those programs available to them on television. In The New York Times article “More Than Ever, You Can Say That On Television” by Edward Wyatt, the author addresses that the issue is not that the language and content on television is more inappropriate that previous years, but that it is show during all hours. I believe that these programs do not reinforce family values; they have a negative influence on children, and should be show after 10:00 PM.

After this controversy regarding certain ratings, people begin to ask, does the MPAA have any certain biases? Here are the facts, according to George Gerbner (University of Pennsylvania, 1987), violence of children’s television shows (includes violent characters, victims and perpetrators of violence) are double than that of prime time adult television shows. Back in 1961, Albert Bandura conducted the Bobo Doll Experiment to study aggression in children. With Bandura’s developing Observational Learning theory (learning by observing). He carried out an experiment with two groups of children, one who watched a film of an adult playing with a Bobo doll violently, and one group that did not. The group that witness the violent behaviour were more aggressive towards the doll as opposed to the other group of children. When children are young, they are exposed to many different violent cartoons (The Roadrunner, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Tom and Jerry, Dragon Ball Z, etc.) and thus effects the children when they grow older. Children exposed to violent cartoons growing up are more likely to be aggressive, decreases concerns about suffering of victims and becomes desensitized

Today nearly 98% of American households have televisions. This makes television the single most important source of media in the lives of children and adolescents. Research shows that about 21- 23 hours per week on average, that children between the ages of five and twelve are exposed. This brings much controversy as to how television delivers the news, media, and violence to young children and adolescents. Many argue that the viewing of television during these crucial years of development can be very harmful involving the link of violence with aggressive behavior, hindering emotional and social development, the lack of exercise, health and activities, the development of temperament in young children, and sleep deprivation.

In my experience, I have witnessed more profanity, sex and nudity, violence, and curse words just by switching on the TV screen. While television shows do come with ratings such as Y, Y7, G, PG, MA, it is often easier for children to gain access to television shows with mature content by flipping through the channels. If the films shown in theatres come with various restrictions, why shouldn’t television shows contain the same level of

Television is especially influential on the children of today. Thirty years ago, not every home had a television; they were considered a luxury that only the rich could afford. Now, most households have two televisions and children watch them incessantly. Many children's programs are extremely violent and a child can learn violent behavior from watching these programs. For example, about a month ago, in Norway, a small girl was beaten, stripped, and left to die by three boys aged 5, 6, and 6. When asked why

Have you ever thought about the impact television could have on youths today? This image consists of a man sitting on couch clutching papers firmly. He is pointing a gun to his head with a face full of regret. There are tiny words that appear towards the top that read “kids shouldn’t watch too much tv” which is the overall message of the photo. The image has a specific tone, purpose, and argument.

Television is a big part of today’s society. Everybody watches television, including the children. There is a potential problem with letting children watch television. Ask this question, would someone let their own child watch some of the programming that they watch, too? Some of these programs are intended for the adult generation, not young children. Violence has a major role in television these days. Letting children watch this violence could corrupt their minds and eventually lead to bad behavior. There needs to be a limitation on the types of television programming that parents let their children watch, because violence in television can negatively affect children.