The essays that I have chosen to write about in my paper are The Television Industry Must Police Itself by Leonard Eron and Save the Children by Ernest Hollings. I choose to focus on how both use ethos in these essays. The main target for the audience for both of these essays is a parent that has young children. I will first begin talking about The Television Industry Must Police Itself by Leonard Eron. In the essay, Leonard Eron tries to prove that violence on television causes real-world violence. He starts us off by claiming that there are over "two hundred studies"(716) that offer "convincing evidence that the observation of violence does affect the aggressive behavior of the viewer". (716). We can assume that these two hundred studies, while appearing to be a preponderance of the evidence, is nothing more than unconfirmed report. Eron goes on to discuss the television industry view of censorship and how they claim it is a violation of their First Amendment rights. He mentions that Western European governments have censored television and films for years. They do not permit the showing of unnecessary violence and control the amount of violence during the hours that children usually watch television. Eron forgets that in Europe most countries do not have something similar to our First Amendment. In the United States, free speech is one of our most cherished institutions. Americans do not like having their First Amendment rights crushed upon. In the United States, network television can be and usually are condemned if they show an actor's butt. Eron needs to remember that different societies have different values. In paragraph five he basically states that violence creates television viewing. He says, "Children living in the inner city are increasingly surrounded by violence at home, in the neighborhood, on the way to and from school, "They are constantly dodging bullets, cowering in hallways, hid...