There is so much aggression on television. It is not only in young adult and adult sitcoms, but also in children's cartoons. A statistic reveals that by the time children graduate school, they will have spent 20,000 hours in front of the television set (Troppe, 1). Television viewing ranks 2nd only to sleeping as the nation's number one pastime for children (Troppe, 2). According to Roger Fransecky, a psychologist and consultant for CBS, "children in this country are estimated to have watched between 5000 and 8000 hours of television before they enter kindergarten". (Troppe, 2). "A survey conducted by Joan Watkins, author of Breaking the TV Habit, revealed the following facts about television and the middle class household: (1) most families own a minimum of three and a maximum of five televisions; (2) at least one set in each home is in color; (3) the sets are situated in vital living areas such as the living room, kitchen, bedrooms, and family room; (4) families seldom watch television together; (5) often parents do not know what their children watch; and (6) three-quarters of the people polled in the survey would be unwilling to go without television for a week even as an experiment. These simple facts lend themselves to some general assumptions: (1) TV is a lonely recreation. Children don't have to pick and choose programs, sharing the set with the parents and siblings. With several sets in the house, a child finds one that isn't being used and turns it on; (2) many parents, therefore fail to monitor their children's television intake" (Troppe, 2). Television desensitizes. We learn to accept violence. We see all these brutalities on television and then when you see it in real life there is no response.
             There are so many shows out there that display acts of violence, sex, and inappropriate language like it doesn't matter. But it does. People watch these shows and th...