On April 20,1999 two boys by the names of Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris walked into their High school in the little town of Colombine Colorado and opened fire on their fellow classmates. Some say it was the parents others say just pure teen adolescence; I say it was the media. In the 1950's Television was first introduced to America, only ten percent of the families owned a one television in their home, by 1960 that number increased to a mere 90% of the people owning a TV, but now a whopping 99% of homes in our country own a TV. 54% of children have one in their own room. Television has become so much of a part of are existence that it is virtually impossible to imagine life without it. We all love TV. We can't help ourselves. But the question is what !

is TV doing to us? And how much is too much? Children begin to react to television at a very early age, studies show that by the age of three, 95% of

m 3-5 acts during prime time hours to 20-25 different acts of violence on Saturday morning. The more violence you start to take in at a young age the more you want to see as you get older. Violence is like a drug; it starts out in a harmful manner, but increases as time passes. Children might start out watching a very small amount of violence on TV such as they see a cartoon character hit their friend over the head, which they will most likely imitate and as times goes on they will become more daring in their acts. Take Walt Disney's movie "The Program" for example. In one part of this film it features three young men lying down in the middle of the highway dodging cars, but after this movie !

re, "Cannibal Corpse" has a song called "Orgasm by Torture", and these are best selling albums that send out messages of violence and hate. Violence in the Media needs to be stopped, before it gets so out of control that parents won't be able to tell their children what to do and more and more murders and rapes keep on happening.

he average child will witness over 200,000 thousand acts of violence on television including 16,000 acts of murder in his lifetime. Violence

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