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Introduction
The average American child watches 8000 murders and 100,000 acts of violence before finishing elementary school - thanks to the miracle of television. Suggestions of a link between fantasy violence and aggression on television in real life have arisen since the formative years of television in the 1950s - and always rejected by the television industry. But recently, the three major networks have signed a first joint statement outlining practices to reduce violence, and cable, video and film show signs of cooperation. Some in Congress are encouraged and maintain hope that change will occur voluntarily, without the need for federal regulation. But anti-violence activists and researchers blame the television industry just lip service to this problem.
Overview
The young victim shot in the emergency room of Boston hospitals surprised his doctors. He was surprised that his wound hurts.
With American children glued to the television for an average of 27 hours per week (in the city center, it is often 11 hours a day), the American Psychological Association (APA) said today that a typical child shows 8000 murders and 100,000 acts of violence before they finish primary school.
But in 1991 alone there were 25,000 murders in the United States. Coming at a time when the homicide rate has risen six times faster than population, a longstanding debate - not television violence causes real violence? - Took a new urgency.
"There was never such a situation," Dean Emeritus George Gerbner of the University of Pennsylvania Annenberg School of Communications, told a congressional committee in December. The children "begin to look young. Most of the stories they hear are not told by parents, school, church, neighbors. They are told by a handful of conglomerates who have something to sell. "
The stories they tell in salons across the country are as familiar as Arnold "Terminator" Schwarzenegger taunts, "Hasta la vista, baby", or Clint "Dirty Harry" Eastwood growled, "Make my day." A full 25 percent of the prime-time shows in the fall 1992 season is "very violent" material, according to the National Coalition on Television Violence (NCTV), a Champaign, Illinois-based surveillance and advocacy group. (See list, p. 168.)
The year 1992 set a record of all time for violence in children's programming - 32 violent acts per hour. That compares with six violent acts per hour in prime time, according to researchers at the University of Pennsylvania. The amount of blood splashing the night, rapes, wrecks and victims crying on television has tripled during the 1980s, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics. (See article on p. 170.)
What differentiates the TV today to share the 1960s and, for example, bursts of machine gun routine Chicago gangsters and FBI agents on "The Untouchables" is the proliferation of formats - cable, pay- per-view, video recorders - the introduction of an array of feature films in the house. "Access to violence is different today," said Edward Donnerstein, professor of communications at the University of California-Santa Barbara. "There are many unattended in front of the television, and households often have two televisions. "
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Posted on February 2, 2010.
