Not Done

With every passing day people await the next big box office hit, the next episode of their favorite sitcom, or the latest news, but do they realize how what they are viewing could be effecting them. With violence growing in our media and entertainment could it be effecting the way people behave toward each other. Could there be more to the blood on the screen or the shove witnessed by the television viewer ?When the evidence says that it does why are there so few people doing something about it.

In 1972 a report was released by the surgeon general called “Television and Growing Up: The Impact of Televised Violence,” it stated that there was strong evidence that televised violence can be harmful to young viewer. Yet since then the standards for banning violence in the media has lessened. The standards for rating movies have been lowered and made easier to comply with. Movies that wouldn’t have even made it to the public in the 1970 are on the shelves at public libraries for teens to check out and view as they please.

At younger and younger ages kids see what only adults used to view. “ Children are now bombarded with explicit messages on a scale unlike anything our culture has ever seen.” A quote given by Tipper Gore in her book “Raising PG kids in an X-rated society. With all of these