Violence In TV Shows

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People often over look or tern a blind eye to the things said or done on there TV. This is because there are so many young people out there that don’t seem to understand just what it is that there watching or they don’t know that it could be secretly affecting the morel in the decisions there making and that the cause may be there favorite TV show. However there are so many shows out there that can be miss leading like animated show with adult content(Family Guy or The Cleveland Show) or you have “reality television” with all kinds of inappropriate shows that aren’t animated, but still seem to corrupting the minds kids. Some kids are exposed to certain T.V. shows to early or maybe there just watching the wrong
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Clearly, America has more then 2X the number of teen deaths there were costs by gun violence.
Also, Dr. Steven Dowshen states in his article How T.V. affects Children that “Kids who view violent acts on TV are more likely to show aggressive behavior”. But that 's not all, in a article called Media Violence by Jack Radgowski, he says “Children watching 4 episodes of Criminal Minds (during the fall of 2012) were exposed to an average of 52.8 acts of violence per episode or 1 act of violence every minute and 8 seconds.”. So do you see the pattern?, Let me explain. The more we promote and expose developing minds to violent and inhuman acts in away we are desensitizing (to desensitize to decrease the abnormal fear in (a person) of a situation or object,), how unacceptable the crime are in reality. everything has changed the screens are bigger and flatter, the styles of programming have changed, alternative ways to watch your favorite shows like ipads, tablets, and smart phones,
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Gail Gross expresses in her article Violence on TV and How It Can Affect Your Children that “ children learn from both experience and social learning or role modeling. Therefore, when children, especially young children, see violence on television, they have a difficult time differentiating between what is real or what is make believe, and tend to emulate or copy what they are

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