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THE EFFECTS OF MEDIA VIOLENCE ON CHILDREN On April 20,1999 two boys by the names of Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris walked into their High school in the little town of Colombine Colorado and opened fire on their fellow classmates. Some say it was the parents others say just pure teen adolescence; I say it was the media. In the 1950's Television was first introduced to America, only ten percent of the families owned a one television in their home, by 1960 that number increased to a mere 90% of the people owning a TV, but now a whopping 99% of homes in our country own a TV. 54% of children have one in their own room. Television has become so much of a part of are existence that it is virtually impossible to imagine life without it. We all love TV. We can't help ourselves. But the question is what ! is TV doing to us? And how much is too much? Children begin to react to television at a very early age, studies show that by the age of three, 95% of
Women are very objectified in songs such as "Slap my Bitch Up" by "Prodigy" or "Slap a Ho" by "Dove Shack". Watching the violence that goes on in the media not only causes children to act out towards others, but also makes them believe that other children acting out aggressively is all right. children will imitate someone on TV as they would a real live person, and children between the ages of six and ten believe that most of what they see on television is true life. "Marilyn Manson" and "Cannibal Corpse" go even further, with lyrics that describe rape and tortu!re, "Cannibal Corpse" has a song called "Orgasm by Torture", and these are best selling albums that send out messages of violence and hate. ------------------------------------------------------------------------**Bibliography**. It is said that the average child, from the ages of three to twelve will watch a minimum of 28 hours of TV a week, meaning children spend more time in front of the so called "Boob Tube" then they do in the classroom. This makes them very vulnerable to the effects that television causes. The more violence you start to take in at a young age the more you want to see as you get older. It can cause a child to become obese, it increases cholesterol levels and sodium intake, it leads to insomnia and impaired school activity. The story that goes along with this movie is that a young man took his date out to see this movie; after the movie ended he killed her and sucked her blood. Studies suggest that children who watch more then others have a higher risk of the usage of tobacco, alcohol and a younger onset of sexual activity. Violence in the media leads many children to become very aggressive, by watching aggression children learn how to become aggressive, and they also believe that if they act out in a certain manner of aggression they may get rewarded for it, because they just saw their favorite cartoon knock some guy out for a bag of candy. Take Walt Disney's movie "The Program" for example. These are just a very few examples of what the media has caused children to do. T!he average child will witness over 200,000 thousand acts of violence on television including 16,000 acts of murder in his lifetime.
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