Violence on television

With the invention of the television came a world of opportunities. Not only is it a mode of entertainment and relaxation, but it is also a means of influence on those who indulge themselves in hours of channel surfing. Television provides the latest news and trends around the world, allows viewers to shop while sitting in a comfortable armchair or couch, and even teaches valuable information about animals and cooking. Unfortunately, much of today's television programming is violent.
Typically, U.S. children begin watching television at a very early age, sometimes as early as six months, and are fervent viewers by the time that they are two or three years old. The amount of time that American children spend watching TV is astounding: an average of four hours a day, 28 hours a week, 2,400 hours a year, nearly 18,000 hours by the time they graduate from high school. In comparison, they spend a mere 13,000 hours in school, from kindergarten through twelfth grade. American children spend more time watching TV than any other activity, besides sleeping. By the time the average American child is six, she will spend more time watching TV than talking to her father in her lifetime.
Time spent in front of the television is time a child is not doing something else, such as playing, running, reading, drawing, or helping out with chores. But children are learning while they watch TV. In fact, television has been called the teaching machine. What children learn depends on what they watch.
Not all television viewing is bad. There are quite a number of excellent programs dedicated to young children. Some programs combine entertainment and education to help children learn to identify characters, shapes and colors, sequence numbers and letters, practice beginning phonics skills, learn the vocabulary and sounds of foreign languages, and...

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