Media Violence
What is media violence? It is violence on TV, in movies, on video games, and in music. With the youth spending so much time these days watching and listening to the violence it has a dramatic affect on them. It has been proven that violence on the media is bad, it has been linked to school shootings, fights and other acts of violence.

When the TV was released in 1950 only 10% of American households had TV's, by 1960 over 90% of them had televisions. Today 99% of households have TV's 66% of them have 2 or more. In fact more households have a TV then a telephone (BabyBag1). With that much TV being watched violence has increased exponentially. In 1950 the US population was 150 million and there were 6280 homicides, in 1980 the population was 220 million a 47% increase the homicides were 23000 a 400% increase (groves2). Violent shows are sold to networks for a cheaper so they use them more. When the TV show NYPD blue first aired they had trouble finding......

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Title: Media Violence
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