Kids and Television

Essay # 53576

Advertising
Child, Youth Issues
Communication > Mass Media

Kids and Television

A look at how violence in the media affects our children.

1,733 words () | 9 sources | MLA | 2003 United States

Paper Summary:

This paper examines how thousands of studies have pointed to a relationship between media violence and real life crime and how years of research show that exposure to media violence causes children to behave more aggressively, both immediately and in their adult years. It discusses how violence on television is detrimental to our society and its future and looks at ways in which it can be controlled, such as the Action for Children's Television (ACT) and the V chip.

From the Paper:

"In 1968, Action for Children's Television (ACT) was established in order to convince the Federal Communications Commission to limit violence and force the networks to show programs that are more educational for children(Howe 123). Despite ACT's efforts, Congress and the FCC did nothing to promote children's television. However, twenty-two years after the creation of ACT, Congress passed the Children's Television Act of 1990, which directed the FCC, in reviewing TV broadcast license renewals, to "consider the extent to which the licensee has served the educational and informational needs of children." Congress also prohibited indecent broadcasts outside of "safe harbor" hours (10 p.m. to 6 a.m.), the hours when it is least likely that unsupervised children will be in the audience(Carter 67)."