The average American child watches 8,000 murders and 100,000 acts of violence

before finishing elementary school. That is not surprising considering the average child

is watching 27 hours of television each week, and in the inner-city children watch up to

eleven hours per day. Twenty-five percent of prime time shows in the fall of 1992

contained highly violent material, and the US homicide rate is rising fast- six times faster

than the population(CQ Researcher, 167). "There has never been a situation like this,"

says George Gerbner. A Times Mirror poll held in March of 1992 showed 72% of

Americans think there is definitely excessive violence on TV and a 1990 Gallop poll

found 63% agree television programs that depict crime and violence actually encourage

it(CQ Researcher,167-8). Television also causes the viewer to be in a "hypnotic" state so

they don't respond to anything happening around them. TV blurs an individual's

perception of reality and TV violence affects society and induces violence and crimes.

Television creates a blur of reality. "Television is greatly criticized for failing to

provide a complete, unbiased picture of reality" (Encarta) While one

24 acts of violence per hour. 1992 was a record setting year for violence in kids shows

comment about the information given. It literally stops the critical mind (Mander, 197). "

aired are Dark Water, Cookie's Cartoon Club, and Tom and Jerry Kids with 109, 100 and

children's viewing time and make sure that they understand the difference between

lives take on a quality of a dream" ( Mander, 202 ). This is because television places

with 32 acts of violence per hour (CQ Researcher, 167). The three most violent cartoons

society (CQ Researcher, 175). It will take many years and a joint effort by the networks

he was asked why he also poured salt on the victim's wounds. 'Oh, I don't know,' he

actually believe he was real and without knowing it, start to act like him. "An image

violence and crime in society. In order to control this violence, parents must limit their

1972 the Surgeon General reported that there is a link between TV violence and

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in the mid-1980's, a 13-year-old from California confessed to being guilty in murdering

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