es: 6 to 9 a.m. and 2 to 5 p.m. are the most popular times for child and adolescent viewers. These are the times in the morning when young children will watch most avidly and in the afternoon after school when school-aged children are most attentive to it. This just goes to show that the children, already established as the most vulnerable, are also the ones subjected to the most violent scenes. This is a bad combination and it stimulates bad tendencies and violence in the children. Now that the extent to which the television is being watched has been established, and with some idea of just how much violence there is on an average day, it is time to look at an even more telling tale. Yes, we said that children may be subjected to more than six hundred acts of violence in a three-hour time period, but who’s to say that these acts are in any way severe? Well, the truth is that while many acts are subtle in their appearance, they still have an overwhelming effect over time. This is not to mention the fact that the major acts of violence add up as well. By the time a child of today’s world reaches the age of eighteen he will have witnessed over 8,000 simulated murders on the television. That is an average of 1.22 murders per day, counted from birth. What you see here is a repetitive bombardment of violence and violent material upon children. Seeing this every day gives it the same effect as eating, or sleeping; it’s nearly habitual, which is a truly sad state of affairs. Getting into a habit of seeing murders and violence on television, is an obvious sign that should lead us to believe that it will influence children in a negative way. Numbers are easily crunched and manipulated by both sides of the argument. I see that there are quite a few numbers involved here in the argument. They are mostly in favor of violence being a bad influence, making these facts hard to ignore. Especially when they are as blatant and obvious as...
