uch youngsters come to expect the violence in everyday life; they create it to besatisfied.Besides the fact that violence on television is able to be much more exciting andenthralling than it is viewed in reality, the children find the violent and the hostile behaviors of thecharacters in movies fun to imitate. They do imitate the models because the ideas shown ontelevision are more attractive to the viewers. This factor has been widely seen with the advent ofthe Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and Star Wars. Young children cannot seem to get enoughof this fictional characters and portray them often. Or here is another example, after watching themovie Natural Born Killers, students in Columbine High School killed numbers of theirclassmates and teachers thinking that shooting was natural act to perform. Many other moviesand shows as well as advertising on television do perform the examples of violence and physicalabuse: slapping, hitting, biting, spitting, burning, and many other forms of physical aggressionsthat effect a young childs mind disrupting the learning abilities and upsetting the moral balance.The information cannot be ignored. Violent television viewing does effect young people.On this topic, writes Caryl Rivers, Make no mistake, it is not sex we are talking about here.Violence against women. Rivers expresses that rock videos and all-music channels have gone toofar. In addition to the fact that teenagers have instant access to see Prince wearing only a purplejock strap and Mick Jagger unzipping his fly as he gyrates, the same videos portray the rock starsgarroting, beating or sobomizing a woman in their numbers (202). Once again all of theseimages shown on TV are the reflections of adult reality in childrens eyes. How are the childrengoing to know that rape of women, incest, molestation, hurting, and sexual contact withoutconsent is not OK in moral context of a normal person?The most important aspect of violence on television is...
