Television Coverage: Scott O’Brien
It is estimated that there are 109.6 million televisions that a child spends an average 4 hours a day watching television (Huston &Wright, University of Kansas). This accounts for children spending more time watching television than any other activities (including sleep). The children in this study were 7 to 17 years of age, which is an impressionable age. Since they are spending so much time watching television, one may infer that they are learning about sex and sexual thoughts from television. In fact, sources (www.parentstv.org) report 62% of television and movies promote that children have sex when they are young and 77% of parents say there is too much television promoting sex before marriage. Children …show more content…
Lady Gaga’s new song “Till it Happens to You” is a leading advertisement for this upcoming story. In this report they show other news clips of schools talking about how they take all sexual assaults and rape reports “very seriously.” However, when the colleges talked about the punishments given to assaulters, the punishments were far from serious and included being expelled after graduation to 50 hours community service. This shows the biases that the news has with colleges because they want to keep college in a good light. The CNN report on The Hunting Ground brought this fault forward and exposed this bias. The plan of the CNN report is to increase awareness of sexual assault, to get victims to report if they been sexual assaulted, to get help of victims, and to stop sexual …show more content…
In one episode, Peter Griffin (the main character) walks into the kitchen to talk to his wife. With a sad look on his face he says “Lois I was sexual harassed at work today.” She responds, “You can’t be sexually harassed.” Then they laugh about how men can’t be sexual assaulted. The daughter says she has been sexually assaulted at school and both parents brush it off as they always do. It is scary how much misinformation the episode reveals. First, they imply that men cannot be sexually harassed because as Peter Griffin states “we like it. In fact, men can get assaulted. They are also less likely to report sexual assaults because they are scared people will judge them or not believe them because of this stereotype. Secondly, the two parents did not do anything when their daughter said she was assaulted. This is also scary because viewers watching this may be afraid to ask for help because they feel that they could be skipped over or ignored (like the daughter). Sexual assault is a very serious issue that should not be made
It is estimated that there are 109.6 million televisions that a child spends an average 4 hours a day watching television (Huston &Wright, University of Kansas). This accounts for children spending more time watching television than any other activities (including sleep). The children in this study were 7 to 17 years of age, which is an impressionable age. Since they are spending so much time watching television, one may infer that they are learning about sex and sexual thoughts from television. In fact, sources (www.parentstv.org) report 62% of television and movies promote that children have sex when they are young and 77% of parents say there is too much television promoting sex before marriage. Children …show more content…
Lady Gaga’s new song “Till it Happens to You” is a leading advertisement for this upcoming story. In this report they show other news clips of schools talking about how they take all sexual assaults and rape reports “very seriously.” However, when the colleges talked about the punishments given to assaulters, the punishments were far from serious and included being expelled after graduation to 50 hours community service. This shows the biases that the news has with colleges because they want to keep college in a good light. The CNN report on The Hunting Ground brought this fault forward and exposed this bias. The plan of the CNN report is to increase awareness of sexual assault, to get victims to report if they been sexual assaulted, to get help of victims, and to stop sexual …show more content…
In one episode, Peter Griffin (the main character) walks into the kitchen to talk to his wife. With a sad look on his face he says “Lois I was sexual harassed at work today.” She responds, “You can’t be sexually harassed.” Then they laugh about how men can’t be sexual assaulted. The daughter says she has been sexually assaulted at school and both parents brush it off as they always do. It is scary how much misinformation the episode reveals. First, they imply that men cannot be sexually harassed because as Peter Griffin states “we like it. In fact, men can get assaulted. They are also less likely to report sexual assaults because they are scared people will judge them or not believe them because of this stereotype. Secondly, the two parents did not do anything when their daughter said she was assaulted. This is also scary because viewers watching this may be afraid to ask for help because they feel that they could be skipped over or ignored (like the daughter). Sexual assault is a very serious issue that should not be made