Television Violence

Television increases one’s propensity towards violence. From preschoolers, to adolescents. Everyone is affected by Television violence. It’s an issue that too many people ignore. Most people believe that Television violence is not worthy of our attention, but it is! Preschoolers overwhelmingly prefer and pay close attention to cartoons – a format that is particularly violent. Saturday-morning cartoons, for example, have 20 to 25 violent acts per hour compared with five violent acts per hour in prime …

…television violence than others, and that it is these children who are likely to be potentially more aggressive anyway. But the effect of television violence leads these "at-risk" children to be even more aggressive than they would otherwise be. And although the group especially at risk might be a minority of viewers, they are likely to be the majority of aggressors. This fact makes them, and the violent content of television, worthy of our attention.