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In the 1950s, television became popularly available in the U.S. Over the next half-century, television, in concert with a number of other mass media (videos, CDs, DVDs, and, most recently, the Internet), depicted a vast number of violent acts that permanently altered the cultural atmosphere of the United States. Today the A.C. Nielsen Corporation finds that, by the time a child finishes elementary school, he or she has already seen 8,000 murders on television (Herr 1). With the advent of the Internet, children are just a few keystrokes away from finding real-life clips of murders and suicides (such as the Budd Dwyer killing) that, in intensity if not in sheer number, go beyond anything available on television. Starting at about the same time that television become ubiquitous, the U.S. experienced a staggering increase in violence. Skogan (236) notes that "Between 1955 to 1986, the violent crime rate rose almost exactly 600 percent..." Over the same timeframe, twice the number of American households acquired television sets. While it is not possible to demonstrate a simple causal connection between television viewership and the increase in violent crime, many scientific observers have been struck by the apparent correlation between expanding television viewership and expanding violence.

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The Effects of TV/Media Violence on Children In the 1950s, television became popularly available in the U.S. Over the next half-century, television, in concert with a number of other mass media (videos, CDs, DVDs, and, most recently, the Internet), depicted a vast number of violent acts that permanently altered the cultural atmosphere of the United States. Today the A.C. Nielsen Corporation finds that, by the time a child finishes elementary school, he or she has already seen 8,000 murders on television (Herr 1). With the advent of the Internet, children are just a few keystrokes away from finding real-life clips of murders and suicides (such as the Budd Dwyer killing) that, in

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