ing under tables"(716). It sounds like the television violence is nothing compared to what they face on a daily basis. So, why should we be so concerned about what they are watching? We should not be. They are safe inside watching an innocent television program. Eron really makes a case that television follows society, not the other way around. Television is doing exactly what it was intended to do: portray human life as it really is. We have come a long way in the last thirty years in the television realism. If the writers do not portray the stories realistically, then we begin to lose interest in the
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