mportant as the constant presence of violent television, is the context in which the television content is presented. Depending upon the viewing choices that are made, the violent content may or may not be blatantly presented.
             Individuals may become desensitized to violence not only due to the huge volume of violent content being shown on television, but also because of the forms that the depictions of violence often take.(Price, 1998) Violent content, by all indications, is equal opportunity: the very young are shown exaggerated violence in cartoons, teenagers are shown what is presented as acceptable violence in the form of the "reality shows" that have saturated modern television programming, and even talk shows and daytime dramas readily present violence as a commonplace and worthwhile activity.
             Graphic depictions of brutal violence are likewise quite common in television programming, but because of the previously mentioned desensitization, by the time a teenager, for example, sees outright violence on television, they have become accustomed to violence and no
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