TELEVISION
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Television
The television set has been one of those keystone technologies that has played a major role in shaping modern society. While there are many other technologies that have done the same thing, such as personal computers or the internet, television has been around the longest, and therefore, had more of a chance to be an influence. As such, many issues have emerged to cause debate related to television viewing. The common thread among these issues revolves around television's influence, subdivided into these particular categories: violence, personal values, and the regulation of television.
First of all, several perspectives on television violence have emerged. The first, and seemingly most often heard, is that violence on television will influence others to be more violent as well. There have been many studies that show a strong correlation between violence in entertainment and violent crimes. There is a statistical significance between the timing of when mass murder entered Hollywood in a significant amount and a rising of incidents where children and adolescents commit mass murders. (Easterbrook, 1) "Combining television and movies, the typical American boy or girl, studies find, will observe a stunning 40,000 dramatizations of killing by age 18." (Easterbrook, 2) While many follow this first perspective, others believe that there is an exaggeration of how much violence has been shown...