Television violence in society

Download PDF Abstract Exposure to violence in media, including television, movies, music, and video games, represents a significant risk to the health of children and adolescents. Extensive research evidence indicates that media violence can contribute to aggressive behavior, desensitization to violence, nightmares, and fear of being harmed. Pediatricians and other child health care providers can advocate for a safer media environment for children by encouraging media literacy, more thoughtful and proactive use of media by children and their parents, more responsible portrayal of violence by media producers, and more useful and effective media ratings. Office counseling has been shown to be effective.

Kerby Anderson

Text version below transcribed directly from audio] Governor Collins, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen. Governor Collins you're much too kind, as all of you have been to me the last few days. It's been a great pleasure and an honor for me to meet so many Television violence in society you.

And I want to thank you for this opportunity to meet with you today. As you know, this is my first public address since I took over my new job.

Ill Effects: The Media Violence Debate (Communication and Society) [Martin Barker, Julian Petley] on initiativeblog.com *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The influence of the media remains a contentious issue. Every time a particularly high-profile crime of violence is committed. Television and violence: Implications of the Surgeon General's research program. American Psychologist, Vol. 28, pp. National Institute of Mental Health (). The social aspects of television are influences this medium has had on society since its inception. The belief that this impact has been dramatic has been largely unchallenged in media theory since its inception. However, there is much dispute as to what those effects are, how serious the ramifications are and if these effects are more or less evolutionary with human communication.

When the New Frontiersmen rode into town, I locked myself in my office to do my homework and get my feet wet. But apparently I haven't managed yet to stay out of hot water. I seem to have detected a very nervous apprehension about what I might say or do when I emerged from that locked office for this, my maiden station break.

So first let me begin by dispelling a rumor. I was not picked for this job because I regard myself as the fastest draw on the New Frontier.

Second, let me start a rumor. Like you, I have carefully read President Kennedy's messages about the regulatory agencies, conflict of interest, and the dangers of ex parte contacts. And, of course, we at the Federal Communications Commission will do our part.

It may also come as a surprise to some of you, but I want you to know that you have my admiration and my respect. Yours is a most honorable profession. Anyone who is in the broadcasting business has a tough row to hoe.

You earn your bread by using public property. When you work in broadcasting you volunteer for public service, public pressure, and public regulation.

You must compete with other attractions and other investments, and the only way you can do it is to prove to us every three years that you should have been in business in the first place.

I can think of easier ways to make a living. But I cannot think of more satisfying ways. I admire your courage -- but that doesn't mean that I would make life any easier for you.

Your license lets you use the public's airwaves as trustees for million Americans. The public is your beneficiary. If you want to stay on as trustees, you must deliver a decent return to the public -- not only to your stockholders.

So, as a representative of the public, your health and your product are among my chief concerns. Now as to your health, let's talk only of television today. Profit before taxes was , dollars, an average return on revenue of Compare these withwhen gross broadcast revenues were 1,, dollars, and profit before taxes was ,, an average return on revenue of So the percentage increase of total revenues from '59 to '60 was 9 per cent, and the percentage increase of profit was 9.

This, despite a recession throughout the country. For your investors, the price has indeed been right. So I have confidence in your health, but not in your product.

It is with this and much more in mind that I come before you today. One editorialist in the trade press wrote that "the FCC of the New Frontier is going to be one of the toughest FCC's in the history of broadcast regulation. If he meant that we intend to muzzle or censor broadcasting, he is dead wrong.

It wouldn't surprise me if some of you had expected me to come here today and say to you in effect, "Clean up your own house or the government will do it for you. But I want to say to you as earnestly as I can that it is not in that spirit that I come before you today, nor is it in that spirit that I intend to serve the FCC.

I am in Washington to help broadcasting, not to harm it; to strengthen it, not weaken it; to reward it, not to punish it; to encourage it, not threaten it; and to stimulate it, not censor it.Media violence on TV is a reflection of the level of violence that occurs in the real world.

Many TV programmers argue that their shows just mirror the violence that goes on in the real world. Many TV programmers argue that their shows just mirror the violence that goes on in the real world.

It is believed that repeated exposure to real-life and to entertainment violence may alter cognitive, affective, and behavioral processes, possibly leading to desensitization. Discusses issue of violence in society with special emphasis on television violence.

Violence on TV and How It Can Affect Your Children Children seeing too much violence on TV are more likely to be argumentative, as they have dispensed with the .

Big World, Small Screen assesses the influence of television on the lives of the most vulnerable and powerless in American society: children, ethnic and sexual minorities, and women. Many in these groups are addicted to television, although they are not the principal audiences sought by commercial TV distributors because they are not the most lucrative markets for advertisers.

Television programming as of is all about showing reality without censorship, meaning that child watchers are inundated with shows depicting physical and sexual violence, as well as the use of illegal substances and harsh language.