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V Chip Television Violence
1,324 wordsBy Mary Ann Banta Board Member, National Coalition on Television Violence Almost from its inception, television has attracted critics concerned with violence portrayed in prime-time and Saturday morning children's programs. Spokesmen for the broadcast industry took the position that television and the violence portrayed on television had no affect on behavior of the viewer. To many this was a strange position for an industry that was also selling commercial time with the specific intent to influ...
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1,392 words... rogram ming. He also pointed out that a network loses anywhere from $ 250, 000 to $ 1 million every time it airs a movie with a viewer discretion advisory. He was also quoted "It is not the role of network television to program for the children of America... Televisions obligation is not (to be) the nation's baby-sitter. " Barry Diller who was quoted by Frank Rich of the New York Times does not support this view that television has no public service responsibility. Diller thinks the V-Chip i...
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Civil Liberties Union American Civil Liberties
1,725 wordsSurfing the Internet is like strolling through a library. With just one click of the mouse, a person can enter an amazing world of information. The Internet takes away the inconvenience of having to drive to the public library, plus, the Internet is open twenty-four hours a day. But, not only can a person research information on the Internet, he can shop for products, read the latest news and stocks, meet new people, not only in the United States, but in other countries as well, look for a job, ...
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Violent Video Games Violent Games
1,653 wordsOver the past several years, video games have evolved from the simple pong and pac man to highly detailed, fully interactive fantasy adventures. Unfortunately, along with this development came the ability to depict violence with gory detail and high-speed action. Studies substantiate that this brutal violence found in modern video games has a direct correlation with violence among todays youth. This relationship can be seen through several areas. Several experiments confirm that children are adv...
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1,812 wordsRunning head: VIOLENCE IN THE MEDIA AND ITS EFFECTS ON SOCIETY Violence in the Media and its Effects on Society: Definitions, Effects on Society, Statistics, This paper discusses the effects of violence in the media and how it effects our society. First a definition of media and violence will be presented. Then an explanation about who violence can effect and what effects of violence are evident in our society today. Finally, various ways of prevention are explored and a discussion of whether th...
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1,167 words... y would seek an outlet, either exploding into acts of extreme violence or manifesting itself as symptoms of mental illness. But there is no direct evidence for this conclusion (Aronson, 1995, p. 258). President Clinton looks at it in a different light saying, for people who have never been taught to understand the consequences of their action these things can unintentionally set forth a chain reaction of ever more impulsive behavior. Hollywood figures of the 21 st century blame factors such ...
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1,428 wordsCensorship is a word with many meanings. In a broadcast sense the word censor, according to the Pocket Oxford Dictionary (seventh edition 1984), means an official with power to suppress whole or parts of books, plays, films, letters, news, etc on the grounds of obscenity, or threat to security. Suppress and obscenity are the key words in that definition. Censorship occurs when we watch television or a movie, listen to the radio or buy music, or even read a book or magazine. Censorship also occur...
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Parents And Children T V
814 wordsParents, educators and many others are concerned about the rank of programs performed on T. V. They fear that it may cause youngster to perceive bad influences by watching unsuitable programs. Serviceable functions are being provided by different associations to solve this problem, such as using rating systems. The rating systems will help parents monitor their children's T. V. viewing in many ways. First of all, a rating system is used to let parents decide what their children should watch. Man...
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Video Games And Violence
2,219 wordsVideo Games and Violence During resent years video games play an important role in development of our society, especially younger people. Many young children play video games when they have free time and nothing to do, some engage in this process even to a higher extent. Recently there is an opinion among sociologists and psychologists that video games cause violence among children. In my opinion this is a wrong assumption because violence is created inside the children themselves due to other t...
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Civil Liberties Union American Civil Liberties
953 wordsWhile most people won t admit to watching more than a couple of hours of television per week, at any given moment millions of Americans are glued to their television sets. The variety of programming offered ranges from action, to comedy, to drama. Though not all programming is suitable for all viewers, as adults living in a free country, we have the right to choose what we want to watch and what we don t. Censorship, as defined by Britannica, is the changing or the suppression or prohibition of ...
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1,841 wordsTV Violence: Friend or Enemy? Television violence is a contributing factor to aggressive behavior in children. Recently focus has been placed on this issue, since the majority of violence occurs during prime time and in cartoons. ? It? s not watching that? s bad for kids, it? s what they watch and how much. ? (Slow 2) Parents must accept television into their home and explain the violence that is occurring. TV and TV violence are not new, we have been hearing about TV? s affects on children for ...
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Mortal Combat Television Violence
2,338 wordsIs societies violence the media? s fault? This is the question that has been asked since before television was in every American? s house. Of course there are the different types of media today ranging from newspapers, to on-line reports and stories. There have been arguments upon arguments about this issue, and over 3, 000 studies conducted. Unfortunately there isn? t one single result, there is only an array of supposed answers to this undying question. CBS president, Howard Stringer is pointi...
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1,163 wordsVulgarity in Television In the early years of television people where much more sensitive to what was said and took offense to any form of obscene language. Even in the movies it was unacceptable. However, for many the standard for the use of vulgar language has expanded. In many shows on television vulgar words are used way to often. In many cases unnecessarily. These words do not bother me in the least. However, there are many parents with young children who are offended by this. This would no...
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Material On The Internet Sexually Explicit
1,843 wordsAs we move on into the 21 st century new questions will arise that we could never even have imagined. The speed of life has increased dramatically in the past years. With the age of the Internet already here questions like, Should the Internet be censored? What should be censored, and how could it be censored? are being asked more and more often. Some people might say that the American dream would be hurt because of a violation in our first amendment right, however if the Internet were censored,...
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2,240 wordsIs Internet Censorship Needed? Internet censorship seems to be the target of many debates nowadays in the U. S. due to the rising popularity of the internet and the large amounts of pornography, warez, illegal drugs, and general threats to society. It is a very hard subject to handle, after all no one really is in charge of the internet, and in fact no one really owns it except perhaps the? millions of people throughout the world who contribute to it in various ways? (Burton). The argument for c...
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Communications Decency Act Act Of 1996
866 wordsSince the introduction of the World Wide Web in 1989 by Tim Burners-Lee, many different debates have arisen over various aspects of the Internet. That is expected since there are so many different types of information available on the Web ranging from poetry to games to news to even pornography. Some argue that not all kinds of data should be accessible to all; that is where censorship comes in. Internet censorship includes restriction of access or publication of any material not thought to be a...
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Communications Decency Act Freedom Of Speech
3,318 wordsWhen the government first developed the Internet for military purposes, they had no idea that by the time the nineties came around, nearly everyone in the world would have access to a world wide web of information. Now, the Internet has exploded into one of if not the best source of information in the world. Not only that, but it has become a place where people of all different races, cultures, and societies can go to converse on different topics. Best of all, they can converse about all these t...
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2,226 wordsWhy should anyone be concerned about pornography on the Internet? After all, this is a free country and everyone should have access to anything they want, right? This position would be true if only adults used the Internet; it can not be true when children also use the Internet. Most people would agree that children should not have access to Internet sites that are considered pornographic. Does that mean that children should not be allowed Internet access or that the Internet should not have por...
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1,212 wordsThis article, demonstrates the vulnerability of SUV vehicles in a rollover situation. Dateline from NBC by Lea Thompson did several investigations in regards to this issue, to prove given facts that all SUV models are showing fatal accidents in rollover incidents. The investigation it also shows that many consumers have been mislead and, have also been provided with false information that SUVs are safer and durable than automobiles. In a current incident, the families of Adolfo Morales with six ...
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