Violence_In_The_Media

Violence In The Media The average American child watches three to four hours of television in a single day. That amount of time is over half as much time as children spend in school, and can be up to two times as much time as they spend with their parents on a daily basis. GeorgeGerbner, Ph.D., at the University of Pennsylvania did studies, which show that in one-hour of viewing children’s television you are likely to see about twenty acts of violence. The open violence in today’s media is, in part, responsible for the violence in today’s society. The violence on TV desensitizes children to violence in their lives. They see violence every day, on the news, or cartoons, even some sitcoms. They are forced to live with it every minute of their lives. A bloodied body, perhaps missing a limb, with several gashes cutting a body open is no uncommon sight for the youth today. A man or woman beating another person to death would not bother them. There is near to nothing these days that will make a person look twice, or be astonished at how graphic a fight scene is able to get. violence, children, violent, likely, watch, tv, television, today, time, show, older, media, help, done, behavior, youth, younger, watched, viewing, university, today’s, studies, spend, problems, person, pennsylvania, parents, open, much, lives, little, fight, every, even, day