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Media Violence Grade 11 Project

E-mail me @ the1theonlyhebb@hotmail.com for the bibleography or if u have any questions(make sure u read this whole thing over before u hand it in)THIS IS A GRADE 11 PROJECT
(http://www.babybag.com/articles/amaviol.htm>Television has been popular since the 1960's and is always getting more and more popular the continuing growth for higher ratings and more money makes people forget about the consequences of the shows they feature. Some of the most popular shows are not scripted and made in a studio. They are of real people and doing pranks and doing stunts to and around other people. Shows like this do have ratings and warnings at the beginning of the show but they don't really stop any one from watching unless it's a small child watching television with there parents. But some television shows have violent images in them and still have a low rating like cartoons have bloody gun filled images and still have a rating of PG or less. Because of these types of shows that seem to have low ratings for the content that they are showing I thought I should research about that("The media violence myth"Rhodes, Richard>. After a little searching I came upon a few good stories and sites that said many studies by or for the government are very poorly made and possibley fraudulent in some cases. After a few E-mails I think I found the truth.


(http://www.babybag.com/articles/amaviol.htm>When television was first introduced to North American homes around the 1950's there was only a select few families that could afford a television set. In only one decade the amount of people skyrocketed and only 10 percent of people DIDN'T own a television and now less than 1 percent DON'T own one in fact more people in North America own televisions than telephones. With this, very quickly growing popularity of television is going to be miss used just for ratings and financial gain without recognizing the damage that could be done on the vulnerable minds of young children. We would...