"There was murderers going around killing lots of people and stealing



jewelry." This quote comes from the mouth of an eight year old girl after



watching the evening news on television. The eight year old girl claims



that she is afraid "when there is a murder near because you never know if



he could be in town" (Cullingford, 61). A recent report from the National



Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) pools evidence from over 2,500 studies



within the last decade on over 100,000 subjects from several nations to



show that the compiled evidence of television's influence on behavior is so



"overwhelming" that there is a consensus in the research community that



"violence on television does lead to aggressive behavior" (Methvin, 49).



Given that the majority of scientific community agrees that "the research



findings of the NIMH publication support conclusion of a causal



relationship between television violence and aggressive behavior" (Wurtzel,



21), why is it......

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