TV and censorship

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I. Instead of an introduction p. 2II. Violence - biggest problem on TV p. 3III. Children and TV p. 5IV. New censor chip for American TVs p. 7 Two-year-old James Bulger was killed by 2 ten-year-old boys and afterwards found on a railway line covered with blue paint.

Some weeks before the father of one of the boys hired a video called Childs Play 3 that was lying around at their home. In the film a doll dressed in childs clothes is killed on a railway after being covered with blue paint.

Two American runaways killed a man in a random shooting after watching Oliver Stones video Natural Born Killers, that shows 52 violent deaths, more than 20 times.

USA, Colorado; 20th april 1999 Two teenagers at the age of 17 and 18 years executed 14 pupils and 1 teacher, hurt other 24 pupils in the school and admitted afterwards suicide. The teenagers were dressed in black trenchcoats just the some way like the person in Basketball Diaries who was played by Leonardo di Caprio. Di Caprio also shoots at the teacher and the pupils in his film.

CONSEQUENCES OF TV! ? VIOLENCE - BIGGEST PROBLEM ON TV Even if you just watch a few hours of TV, you cant miss the fact that violence is everywhere on our TV programmes. Although research shows that violence on TV is worsening and getting more and more many people dont think that there is much violence on TV nowadays. But those people are confining their definition of violence to more extreme portrayals. But violence on TV is any scene which shows one or more people hurting another person or people. The violence on TV is also less acceptable as it becomes more graphic and gratuitous. But one of the greatest dangers of TV violence is probably that it tells us that violence is acceptable. TV says that violence is trivial, commonplace, everyday and a part of life. That means that the more you see on television or video incidents of violence, the less shocking it becomes. Since the TV box had been invented violence does exist on the screen, but at that time it wasnt shown in such a great measure like that happens nowadays. At that time there was also a flood of violent films from Hollywood such as the spaghetti westerns and TV tried to compete with this entertainment by showing the most violent of these films on their programmes. Another concerning example of TV violence is a childrens programme called Power Rangers that has caused copycat violence by children in many countries.

Even in norway this programme had to be withdrawn, because a link had been suggested between the killing of a little five-year-old girl by her six-year-old friends.

A public survey found out that people are more likely to be sensitive to violence if they identify with or have great sympathy for the victim, e. g. rape victims, children and animals. It also shows that the levels of acceptance of TV violence are strongly related to age and gender. Younger people are rather unconcerned about gory portrayals ...

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