TO_PERSUADE__Tv_Programs_Should_Be_Rated

TO PERSUADE: Tv Programs Should Be Rated General Goal: To Persuade Specific Goal: I want the audience to believe that all television programs should be rated. I. Introduction: 1. Children begin watching television at a vary early age, sometimes as early as six months, and are eager viewers by the time that they are two or three years old. The general viewing is one of a steady rise in the number of hours viewed from early childhood though preadolescence and then a sharp drop in viewing during the adolescent years. According to audience rating surveys , the typical American household has the television set on for more than seven hours each day and children age 2 to 11 spend an average of 28 hours per week viewing television (Liebert 1988). 2. I have grown up watching TV for as long as I can remember, like almost any one of us in this room. But TV then was different, now TV has a lot of crap. I know if I had kids, I would monitor what they were watching just to ensure they weren’t getting spoon fed all these awful programs that are on today. 3. I asked 5 parents of children ages 4 to 7 if television, tv, programs, children, viewing, ratings, solution, just, violence, rating, rated, problem, watching, should, new, early, child, years, view, v-chip, time, program, parents, parental, parent, hours, guidelines, don’t, believe, before, audience, youth, whose, watch, violent