Do we really need violence on TV? I think that we don't need it, because one day a young man named Bob saw a violent TV show and the next day he shot an Albertson's clerk. He was arrested by the San Francisco police 11 hours later. According to the national television violence study, which looked at 10,000 TV shows over a span of three years found, physical aggression is increasing and violence is "being glamorized, sanitized and trivialized."
Violence occurs in 60 percent of all programs that are aired between 6 a.m. and 11 p.m., according to researcher Barbara Wilson. She also says, "For kids under 7, high-risk portrayals of violence that teach aggression are found most often in cartoons, the very programs that are targeted for this age group." So please, write to your television studios and complain.
Taylor Sharpe
West Valley City