1. Television
Television is an inescapable part of modern culture. We depend on television for entertainment, news, education, culture, weather, sports and music. However, with the explosion of satellite and digital channels, we now have access to a plethora of both good quality and inappropriate TV content. Ac...
Media Violence Television became commercial in 1945, after World War II (Smith 142). Within 65 years television has become a daily routine for children and adults. Television is the most pervasive influence in Americans daily lives. At least one television is found in every American home. You fl...
Violence as Novocain People fighting, weapons, gun fire, pain, and hurt none of us want in our lives, and yet all of this is a part of almost everyone's every day life through entertainment. Try to think of the last time a day passed when you saw no violence whatsoever. It's hard, if not i...
My earliest childhood memories of media use are quite vague. As a child, my mother rarely let my brothers and I watch television. She used to tell us that we had to use our imaginations to keep ourselves occupied. I could never understand why. Thankfully, we were allowed one program a day. ...
Television violence and sexuality is an ever-growing epidemic in our society today. With violent shows on in the middle of the afternoon, while kids are at home and parents are at work, the media has its way with today's children. Shows such as Jerry Springer, South Park, and believe it or not the e...
Jackass showcases stunts such as shooting each other with stun guns, sitting in well used Port-o-Potties while it is being flipped upside down in mid air, holding hard-boiled-egg eating and barfing contest, giving each other paper-cuts and dousing them in alcohol, walking on tight-ropes over alligators, and breaking into relatives in the bathroom and beating them up (Stein 60-61). ...